Jean Améry
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hanns Chaim Mayer, Jean Amery, Hans Mayer
Austrian-born essayist and Holocaust survivor (1912-1978)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 31 October 1912
- Died
- 17 October 1978
- Works
- 82
Top works
- Erich Schmid
- Sharl Bovari, rofe-kafri
- Über das Altern
- Me-ʻever la-ashmah ṿela-kaparah
- Winston S. Churchill
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1912-10-31
- Active to
- 1978-10-17
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 14
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,856x
- Situated Learning
· 1991 · cited 30,529x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,208x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,655x
- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,850x
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Quotes
- “If one speaks about torture, one must take care not to exaggerate.”
- “... nowhere else in the world did reality have as much effective power as in the camp, nowhere else was reality so real. In no other place did the attempt to transcend it prove so hopeless and so shoddy.”
- “Trust in the world, which already collapsed in part at the first blow, but in the end, under torture, fully, will not be regained. That one's fellow man was experienced. as the antiman remains in the tortured person as accumulated horror. It blocks the view into a world in which the principle of hope rules.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Hanns Chaim Mayer , ( 1912-10-31 ) 31 October 1912, Vienna , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 17 October 1978 (1978-10-17) (aged 65), Salzburg , Austria
- Occupation
- Author
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Chaim
- Family name
- Mayer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cisleithania
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- Salzburg
- Occupation
- opinion journalist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Jean Améry par Félix De Boeck 1951.jpg
- Work location
- Brussels
- Residence
- Belgium
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- start of work period
- 1935-00-00
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- Commons category
- Jean Améry
- date of birth
- 1912-01-01
- date of death
- 1978-01-01
- name in native language
- Jean Améry
- manner of death
- Suicide
- place of detention
- Buchenwald concentration camp
- cause of death
- drug overdose
- archives at
- German Literature Archive Marbach
- writing language
- German
- birth name
- Hans Chaim Mayer
Sources (10)
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Jean Améry, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Améry (31 October 1912 – 17 October 1978), born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978.
Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo at Fort Breendonk, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived internments in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and was finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. After the war he settled in Belgium.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Améry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.