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19 january 1985 stanford , california , u.s. william tom flanagan f. buckley , jr. , ellis sandoz , cologne , germany 20th-century philosophy continental philosophy plato von balthasar , henri de lubac , hans jonas , , hans-georg gadamer , othmar spann aristotle , ernst cassirer , hans urs history consciousness religion political science 3 january 1901 eric voegelin
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eric voegelin

eric voegelin -lrb- born erich hermann wilhelm vögelin , ; january 3 , 1901 -- january 19 , 1985 -rrb- was a german-born american political philosopher .
he was born in cologne , then within imperial germany , and educated in political science at the university of vienna .
he became a teacher and then an associate professor of political science at the faculty of law .
in 1938 he and his wife fled from the nazi forces which had recently entered vienna , emigrating to the united states , where they became citizens in 1944 .
he spent most of his academic career at the university of notre dame , louisiana state university , the university of munich and the hoover institution of stanford university .
