Martin Buber

German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)

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Martin Buber (1878–1965) was a philosopher, translator, pedagogue, and writer. Born in Vienna, he held citizenship in the Weimar Republic, Israel, Austria, and Germany. He died in Jerusalem and was buried at Har HaMenuchot. Buber was educated at the University of Vienna, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Zurich, and Leipzig University. He worked in Jerusalem and Heppenheim, serving as an employer at Goethe University Frankfurt, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Die Welt.

His political ideologies included anarchism and humanism. Buber was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and Brit Shalom. He received the Israel Prize, Bialik Prize, Erasmus Prize, and the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Buber spoke Hebrew, German, Polish, and Yiddish. His notable works include *Torat ha-neviʾim*, *A zsidóság megújhodása*, *Die Stunde und die Erkenntnis*, *Das kleine Buch vom grossen Rabbi*, and *Between man and man*. He was a relative of Salomon Buber and identified with the Jewish ethnic group.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 8 February 1878
Died: 13 June 1965
Works: 543

Top works

Torat ha-neviʾim
A zsidóság megújhodása
Die Stunde und die Erkenntnis
Das kleine Buch vom grossen Rabbi
Between man and man

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1878
Active to: 1965

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 31
Total plays: 317

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,873x
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,640x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,565x
STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT
· 1986 · cited 37,919x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,889x

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Quotes

“Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.”
“Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.”
“Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?'"”
“To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.”
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
“The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.”

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Works in European collections

6 objects attributed to Martin Buber, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Discussion on the contribution: Stoic-Christian natural law and modern profane natural law (Troeltsch, Ernst)

Letter from Martin Buber to Gerhart Hauptmann

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Encyclopedic overview

Martin Buber ( German: [ˈmaʁtiːn̩ ˈbuːbɐ] ; Hebrew: מרטין בובר; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.

Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. He produced writings about Zionism and worked with various bodies within the Zionist movement extensively over a nearly 50-year period spanning his time in Europe and the Near East. In 1923, Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.

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Martin Buber