Dr. Erich Kahler / von Kahler

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Erich von Kahler (October 14, 1885 – June 28, 1970) was a renowned mid-twentieth-century European-American literary scholar and essayist best known for scholarly works like The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of Man (1957). Kahler was born in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied philosophy, literature, history, art history, sociology, and psychology at the University of Munich, the University of Berlin, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Freiburg before earning his doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1911.[1][2] In 1933, deprived of his German citizenship by the Nazi regime, he left Germany, immigrating to the United States in 1938 after a period of residence in England.[3] He became a U.S. citizen in 1944, where he was known as Erich Kahler In the U.S. he taught at The New School for Social Research, Black Mountain College, Cornell University, and Princeton University. He was a friend of Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Herman Broch, who wrote Tod der Vergils at Kahler's home, One Evelyn Place in Princeton. Kahler's friends became known as the Kahler-Kreis (Kahler Circle). Like Einstein, Kahler was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He met and married Alice (Lili) Loewy while in Princeton. Kahler's many books often take up political themes, in addition to the relation of society to technology and science. He was an ardent Zionist, advocated world government, and was involved in antiwar and anti-nuclear activism. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[4] Kahler died in 1970 at his home in Princeton, survived by his wife, Alice, and a stepdaughter, Hanna Loewy. Alice Loewy Kahler died in 1992. Hanna Loewy Kahler (September 20, 1925 – March 31, 2007)[5] exchanged letters with theoretical physicist David Bohm after he left the USA for Brazil and these, as well as other letters in her possession, have contributed to an understanding of historic events surrounding the Solvay Conference of 1927 and Bohm's exile in Brazil.[6] She became a psychiatric social worker, and is credited to have helped to preserve the papers of Albert Einstein. [7] [edit]Bibliography

1903: Books of poetry published 1916: Weltgesicht und Politik 1919: Das Geschlecht Habsburg 1920: Der Beruf der Wissenschaft 1936: Israel Unter den Vlkern 1937: Der Deutsche Charakter in der Geschichte Europas 1943: Man the Measure: A New Approach to History 1944: The Arabs in Palestine (with Albert Einstein) 1952: Die Verantwortung des Geistes 1953: Editor: Hermann Broch, Gedichte 1957: The Tower and the Abyss 1960: Contributor: Symbolism in Religion and Literature 1962: Die Philosophie von Hermann Broch 1964: The Meaning of History 1964: Stefan George 1967: The Jews Among the Nations 1967: Out of the Labyrinth: Essays in Clarification (In the appendix of this book there is a reprint of "The Jews and the Arabs in Palestine: A Disputation with Philip K. Hitti" by Albert Einstein and Erich Kahler.) 1968: The Disintegration of Form in the Arts 1969: Orbit of Thomas Mann 1970?: Die Verinnerung des Erzählens (posthumously) 1975: An Exceptional Friendship: The Correspondence of Thomas Mann and Erich Kahler [edit]