Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Hannah Arendt, a refugee from Nazi Germany who became a leading philosopher, one of whose books, “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” touched off a sharp controversy among Jews.
Dr. Arendt died of an apparent heart attack while entertaining friends Thursday night at her apartment in Manhattan. She was 69. After fleeing from Germany in 1933, she became a social worker in Paris, and from 1934 to 1940 she helped to relocate French and German refugees, many of them in Palestine. She was research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations from 1944 to 1946.
Coming to the United States in 1941, she became an American citizen in 1951, some 10 years after she married Heinrich Bluecher, an art historian who died several years ago. She taught at the universities of Chicago, Columbia, California and Princeton before becoming professor of political philosophy of the New School for Social Research here. Dr. Arendt’s books include “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” and “On Revolution.” Born in Hanover, Germany she received a bachelor’s degree from Koenigsberg University and a doctorate in philosophy from Heidelberg University.
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