Jacob Klein (philosopher)

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Jacob Klein (Latvian: Jēkabs Kleins; March 3, 1899 – 16 July 1978) was a German-American philosopher and interpreter of Plato.

Klein was born in Libau (Liepāja). He studied at Berlin and Marburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1922. A student of Martin Heidegger, he taught at St. John's College, U.S. from 1937 until his death. He served as dean from 1949 to 1958.[1]

Klein, "known affectionately as Jasha, was Heidegger's star graduate student in philosophy and one of the world's preeminent interpreters of Plato and the Platonic tradition. He later served as dean at my undergraduate school after fleeing the Nazis, one of many Jewish scholars who were no longer safe in Europe. Simon Kaplan, a respected Jewish scholar in Russia, fled the Communists in similar fashion and later joined the faculty at St. John's as well" (Burk 2004).

[edit] Works

  • A Commentary on Plato's Meno (University of North Carolina Press, 1965)
  • Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (MIT Press, 1968)
  • Plato's Trilogy: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman (University of Chicago Press, 1977)
  • Jacob Klein: Lectures and Essays ed. by Robert Williamson and Elliott Zuckerman (St. John's College Press, 1985)

[edit] References

  1. ^ editors

1 "Biographical Note" in Jacob Klein: Lectures and Essays, Annapolis, MD: St. John's College Press, 1985.

  • Burk, Robin (2004), "What I Learned from Some Eminent Émigré Scholars", Eprint.
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