Hannah Arendt

U1906 - Born in Hanover, Germany on the 14th of October.

1929 - She married Günther Anders in Berlin.

1937 - They get divorced.

1933 - Arendt was prevented from habilitating and thus from teaching in German universities.

1940 - She married the German poet and Marxist philosopher Heinrich Blücher.

         - Immigrated to US.

1941 - She escaped with her husband and her mother to the United States with the assistance of the American diplomat Hiram Bingham IV, who illegally issued visas to her and around 2500 other Jewish refugees.

1950 - She became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

         - Served as a professor on The Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago, as well as at The New School in New York City, and served as a fellow at Yale University and Wesleyan University.

1951 - Wrote political studies "The Origins of Totalitarianism".

1958 - The Human Condition".

1959 - She became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton.

1963 - Eichmann in Jerusalem" .

1975 - Arendt was buried at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where her husband taught for many years, on the 4th of  December.

• "What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations… is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."
• "Action without a name, a'who'attached to it, is meaningless."
• "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
• "Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."