Martin Buber

Martin Buber was a philosopher, translator, pedagogue, and writer born in Vienna on 8 February 1878. He held citizenship in Austria, Germany, the Weimar Republic, and Israel. Buber was educated at the University of Vienna, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the University of Zurich, and Leipzig University, earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree. He worked for Goethe University Frankfurt, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Die Welt. His political ideologies included anarchism and humanism.

Buber received the Israel Prize, Bialik Prize, Erasmus Prize, and the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. His notable works include *Torat ha-neviʾim*, *A zsidóság megújhodása*, *Die Stunde und die Erkenntnis*, *Das kleine Buch vom grossen Rabbi*, and *Between man and man*. He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and Brit Shalom. Buber died in Jerusalem on 13 June 1965 and was buried at Har HaMenuchot.