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Noun Named Entity
Categories: People from Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Philosophers of art, Philosophers of history, Philosophers of language, 20th-century German non-fiction writers
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Walter Benjamin  Angel of history  W. B. S. Benjamin  Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. Wikipedia
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. Wikipedia
German literary critic, philosopher and social critic Wikidata
IS A
homo
ARCHIVES AT
Museum of Modern Art
National Library of Israel
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Hohenzollern empire
German Reich
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
UbuWeb
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
University of Bern
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Freiburg
Humboldt University of Berlin
FAMILY NAME
Benjamin
FIELD OF WORK
philosophy
GIVEN NAME
Walter
INFLUENCED BY
Baudelaire
Brecht
Goethe
Marx
György Lukács
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
German
MANNER OF DEATH
suicide
MOVEMENT
Marxism
NOTABLE WORK
Theses on the Philosophy of History
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Arcades Project
OCCUPATION
art critic
writer
philosopher
literary historian
literary critic
+3 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Berlin
PLACE OF BURIAL
Cementiri oe Portbou
PLACE OF DEATH
Portbou
RELATIVE
Arendt
Gertrud Kolmar
William Stern
Günther Anders
Leon Kellner
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Georg Benjamin
Dora Benjamin
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Nazi book burnings
SPOUSE
Dora Sophie Kellner
WORK LOCATION
Berlin
Bern
Paris
Frankfurt on the Main
WRITING LANGUAGE
German
Wikipedia
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Walter Benjamin
Wikidata
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Walter Benjamin
Wikipedia Redirections
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Angel of history, W. B. S. Benjamin
Wikidata Alias
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin

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