Life and works
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 26 September 1889 | Born in Messkirch, in the Black Forest region of Germany.[4] [3] |
| 1923 | Becomes associate professor at the University of Marburg, where he teaches ontology, logic and the history of philosophy until 1928.[3] [4] |
| 1927 | Publishes Being and Time, his greatest work, and is promoted to full professor at Marburg.[3] [4] |
| 1928 | Appointed to the Freiburg chair previously held by Rickert and by Husserl, whose successor he becomes.[3] |
| April 1933 | Elected rector of the University of Freiburg after Hitler's seizure of power; joins the Nazi Party on 1 May and conducts the 'alignment' (Gleichschaltung) of the university.[3] |
| April 1934 | Resigns the rectorate, but remains a party member until the end of the regime.[3] |
| 1936–1939 | Delivers the great lecture courses on Nietzsche, later collected in book form; in the 1930s–40s he also lectures on Hölderlin, Schelling, Hegel and the pre-Socratics.[3] |
| 1945–1946 | After Germany's surrender and the denazification hearings, the French military government bans him from all teaching and university activity.[3] |
| 1949 | The teaching ban is lifted, allowing him to assume emeritus status at Freiburg.[3] |
| 1950 | Publishes Holzwege (Off the Beaten Track), collecting essays from 1935–1946.[3] |
| 26 May 1976 | Dies in Freiburg im Breisgau.[4] |
Reception in the COF
Present in 99 of the 589 transcription files of the Curso Online de Filosofia; 28 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 281 | — | 39 |
| 276 | 2014-12-27 | 14 |
| 396 | — | 14 |
| 549 | — | 14 |
| 425 | — | 13 |
| 411 | — | 11 |
| 526 | — | 11 |
| 138 | 2012-01-21 | 8 |
| 150 | 2012-04-14 | 8 |
| 222 | 2013-10-22 | 8 |
| 537 | — | 8 |
| 74 | 2010-09-11 | 7 |
| 88 | 2010-12-18 | 7 |
| 142 | 2012-02-19 | 7 |
| 282 | — | 7 |
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)
- Martin Heidegger — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Martin Heidegger — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Martin Heidegger — Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy