Walter Kaufmann (philosopher), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)

American philosopher

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1921

Place of Birth: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 04-Sep-1980

Profession: writer, poet, translator, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 – September 4, 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet.
A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature.
He served more than 30 years as a professor at Princeton University. He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Friedrich Nietzsche.
He also wrote a 1965 book on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published a translation of Goethe's Faust.