Life and works
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 3 January 1901 | Born in Cologne, Germany; the family later moves to Vienna, where he receives his entire formation.[3] [4] |
| 1928 | Obtains the habilitation and begins teaching at the University of Vienna (Britannica records his teaching at the Law Faculty from 1929 to 1938).[4] [3] |
| 1933 | Publishes two books critically analyzing racism and race ideas, which set him against Nazism.[4] |
| 1936 | Publishes Der autoritäre Staat (The Authoritarian State).[3] |
| 1938 | After the Anschluss, flees Austria with his wife, passing through Switzerland before emigrating to the United States.[3] [4] |
| 1942–1958 | Professor at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; becomes a US citizen in 1944.[4] |
| 1952 | Publishes The New Science of Politics, the work that projects him into the American intellectual debate.[3] [4] |
| 1956–1957 | Publishes the first three volumes of Order and History; volume 4 appears in 1974 and the posthumous volume 5 in 1987.[4] [3] |
| 1958 | Takes up in Munich the former chair of Max Weber in political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.[3] [4] |
| 1966 | Publishes Anamnesis: Zur Theorie der Geschichte und Politik, central to his philosophy of consciousness.[4] |
| 1969 | Returns to the United States as senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.[3] [4] |
| 19 January 1985 | Dies at Stanford, California.[3] [4] |
Reception in the COF
Present in 132 of the 589 transcription files of the Curso Online de Filosofia; 26 lectures engage him substantially (5 or more mentions). The most engaged lectures:
This section documents what Olavo said and when — never what the philosopher "really" meant. Characterizations are Olavo’s, tied to a lecture by number and date.
| Lecture (aula) | Date | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 2009-05-03 | 70 |
| 155 | 2012-05-19 | 56 |
| 167 | 2012-08-11 | 17 |
| 82 | 2010-11-06 | 16 |
| 30 | 2009-10-31 | 13 |
| 153 | 2012-05-05 | 13 |
| 69 | 2010-08-07 | 12 |
| 146 | 2012-03-17 | 8 |
| 3 | 2009-04-04 | 7 |
| 56 | 2010-05-01 | 7 |
| 66 | 2010-07-17 | 7 |
| 5 | 2009-04-25 | 6 |
| 13 | 2009-07-04 | 6 |
| 65 | 2010-07-10 | 6 |
| 68 | 2010-07-31 | 6 |
A dash in the date column means the transcription file carries no verified date — an undated file, not an undated lecture. Counts are accent-insensitive, word-boundary matches over the public community transcription corpus.[1] [2]
References
- COF — community transcriptions of the Curso Online de Filosofia (585 lectures) — Community transcription repository (upstream declares CC0 for the transcription work; the lectures remain the estate's)
- COF em Áudio — lecture audio collection — Internet Archive (community upload)
- Eric Voegelin — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Eric Voegelin Biographical Sketch — VoegelinView (journal devoted to Voegelin's thought — sympathetic perspective)