Talk:Walter W. Marseille

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This article baffles me, and I am usually a perceptive person. It was the personal project of User:Milt who is long-gone. Google suggests that this man existed, at least, and might be notable, although his main claim to fame is that Bertrand Russell wrote him a letter. But it is very poor form to write that "details of Marseille's personal and private life have yet to be discovered". The passive voice implies that no-one in the entire world has discovered details etc. What is he a doctor of? Physics? Crumbs. Lupine Proletariat 12:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Frankly, I could find so little about WWM that I began to doubt his existence. The details that are now preserved in the stub settle that question. Milt 01:58, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Walter Marseille was a pupil of Martin Heidegger with whom he doctorated in 1926 at Marburg university. Further information is given by his friend Karl Löwith. He tells us, that Marseille left Germany in 1933, went to Vienna, where he married a woman of Jewish origin and than emigrated to the United States. Literature: Karl Löwith, Mein Leben in Deutschland, p. 59