# Hannah Arendt

> She called it "the banality of evil" - the idea that ordinary people become cogs in totalitarian systems without grand malice, just obedience. That phrase, tied to her coverage of Adolf Eichmann's trial, made her one of the twentieth century's most influential political theorists and one of its most controversial.

*German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906-1975)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1906-10-14
- **Died:** 1975-12-04
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born to a Jewish family in Linden in 1906, Arendt lost her father at seven and grew up in a secular, politically progressive household. She studied under Martin Heidegger at Marburg - where they began a romantic affair - and earned her doctorate in philosophy at Heidelberg in 1929 under Karl Jaspers. In 1933 the Gestapo briefly imprisoned her for illegal research into antisemitism; she fled to Paris, worked helping young Jews emigrate to Palestine, then escaped a French detention camp when Germany invaded and reached the United States in 1941. The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951 established her as a major thinker, followed by The Human Condition in 1958 and Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1963, the latter igniting debate over her attempt to explain how ordinary people serve atrocity. She taught at American universities, refused tenure-track posts, and died suddenly of a heart attack in 1975, leaving The Life of the Mind unfinished.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 75.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.7 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 36.6 / 100
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## Platforms
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #History, #Literature, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **1975** - Benjamin E. Lippincott Award
- **1975** - Died
- **1975** - Sonning Prize
- **1969** - Emerson-Thoreau Medal
- **1967** - Sigmund Freud Prize
- **1962** - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- **1952** - Guggenheim Fellowship
- **1906** - Born

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