Hannah Arendt (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Hannah Arendt was the only child of Paul Arendt and Martha (Cohn) Arendt, a
German-Jewish couple who lived in Hannover. Arendt’s father was an engineer, and the
family moved to the town of Königsberg, the former capital of East Prussia, where the
young Hannah grew up. She attended the University of Königsberg shortly after World War
I, receiving a bachelor’s degree from that institution in 1924. Later that same year, she
began postgraduate study with the existentialist philosopher [The entire page is 2201 words long]
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