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Eric Voegelin (born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin; January 3 1901 – January 19 1985) was a German-born American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne then within Imperial Germany and educated in political science at the University of Vienna. He became a teacher and then an associate professor of political science at the Faculty of Law.

birth date
1901-01-03
birth place
Cologne, German Empire
death date
1985-01-19
death place
Stanford California
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
William F. Buckley Jr., Tom Flanagan (political scientist), Ellis Sandoz
influenced by
Aristotle, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Plato, Ernst Cassirer, Hans Jonas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Othmar Spann, Henri de Lubac
main interest
Consciousness, Political science, Religion, History
philosophicalSchool
Continental philosophy

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