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1891 - Born in Breslau on the 12th of October.
1916 - She received her doctorate of philosophy there with a dissertation under Husserl, "On The Problem of Empathy."
1921 - Her reading the autobiography of the mystic St. Teresa of Ávila on a holiday in Göttingen that caused her conversion.
1922 - On the 1st of January, she gave up her assistantship with Husserl to teach at a Dominican girls' school in Speyer.
- She converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order.
1932 - She became a lecturer at the Institute for Pedagogy at Münster, but anti-Semitic legislation passed by the Nazi government forced her to resign the post.
1934 - She entered the Carmelite monastery at Cologne and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
1942 - Stein was not safe in the Netherlands—the Dutch Bishops' Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the country on the 20th of July, condemning Nazi racism.
1942 - Stein and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were captured and shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they died in the gas chambers on the 9th of August.
1916 - She received her doctorate of philosophy there with a dissertation under Husserl, "On The Problem of Empathy."
1921 - Her reading the autobiography of the mystic St. Teresa of Ávila on a holiday in Göttingen that caused her conversion.
1922 - On the 1st of January, she gave up her assistantship with Husserl to teach at a Dominican girls' school in Speyer.
- She converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order.
1932 - She became a lecturer at the Institute for Pedagogy at Münster, but anti-Semitic legislation passed by the Nazi government forced her to resign the post.
1934 - She entered the Carmelite monastery at Cologne and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
1942 - Stein was not safe in the Netherlands—the Dutch Bishops' Conference had a public statement read in all the churches of the country on the 20th of July, condemning Nazi racism.
1942 - Stein and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were captured and shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they died in the gas chambers on the 9th of August.
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