Background
Kahler, Erich Gabriel was born on October 14, 1885 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Rudolf and Antionette (Schwarz) von Kahler.
Kahler, Erich Gabriel was born on October 14, 1885 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Rudolf and Antionette (Schwarz) von Kahler.
Student of University Munich, U. Heidelberg. Doctor of Philosophy, University Vienna, 1911. Honorary degree Princeton, 1969.
New School for Social Research, New York City, 1941-1942. Professor German literature Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1947-1955. Visiting professor U. Manchester (England), 1955-1956.
Mershon visiting professor Ohio State University, Columbus, 1959.
Visiting professor German literature Princeton, 1960-1963. Visiting professor Technisches Hochschule, Munich, 1963-1964, member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1949.
Member Committee to Frame a World Constitution, University of Chicago, 1945-1950. Fellow Leo Baeck Institute, New York City.
Bolingen Foundation fellow, 1948-1950, 60-62.
Author: Das Geschlecth Habsburgs, 1919. Der Beruf der Wissenschaft, 1920. Der deutsche Charakter in der Geschichite Europaer, 1936.
Israel unter den Volkern, 1936. Man the Measure, A New Approach to History, 1943. (with Albert Einstein) The Arabs in Palestine, 1944.
Die Verantwortung des Geistes, 1952. The Tower and the Abyss, Inquiry into the Transformation of Man, 1957. Die Philosophie von Hermann Broch, 1962.
The Meaning of History, 1964. Stefan George: Grosse und Tragik, 1964. Der Sinn der Geschichte, 1964.
Out of the Labyrinth: Essays in Clarification, 1967. The Jews among the Nations, 1967 (Anisfield-Wolf award). The Disintegration of Form in the Arts, 1968.
Untergang und Ubergang, 1969. The Orbit of Thomas Mann, 1969. The Inward Turn of Narrative, 1973.
Member Committee to Frame a World Constitution, University of Chicago, 1945-1950. Member Deutsche Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung (correspondent).
Married Alice Pick Loewy.