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Portrait of Edith Stein

20th century · 1891–1942

Who influenced Edith Stein?

Influences

Phenomenologist, Carmelite, Auschwitz victim — empathy as the way persons are given to us.

Edith Stein was influenced by Edmund Husserl. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Edith Stein?

Edith Stein was born into an observant Jewish family and became an agnostic as a teenager. After nursing in a hospital for infectious diseases in the First World War, she completed her doctorate at Freiburg in 1916 and became Edmund Husserl's assistant there. Reading the life of Teresa of Ávila drew her to Christianity, and she was baptised a Catholic in 1922.

The Nazi "Aryan" laws cost her her teaching post in 1933, and she entered the Carmelite monastery in Cologne as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Moved to Echt in the Netherlands for safety, she was arrested by the Gestapo with other Catholics of Jewish origin in August 1942 and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Church canonised her as a martyr in 1998.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Edith Stein?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Edith Stein

The longest documented line of influence ending at Edith Stein runs 23 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Friedrich Herbart
  22. Rudolf Hermann Lotze
  23. Edmund Husserl
  24. Edith Stein

Two steps away from Edith Stein

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Edith Stein

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Edith Stein, with no direct line between them.

Edith Stein by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
88
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
61 — #36 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Edith Stein

Who influenced Edith Stein?
Edmund Husserl.
Who did Edith Stein influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Edith Stein.
When did Edith Stein live?
1891–1942. The map files Edith Stein under the 20th century.
How rare is the Edith Stein card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Edith Stein in 61 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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