Background
Strauss, Leo was born on September 20, 1899 in Kirchhain, Hesse, Germany. Son of Hugo and Jenny (David) Strauss.
Strauss, Leo was born on September 20, 1899 in Kirchhain, Hesse, Germany. Son of Hugo and Jenny (David) Strauss.
Doctor of Philosophy, Hamburg U., 1921.
Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Research assistant Academy Jewish Research, Berlin, 1925-1932. Rockefeller fellow social science, France and England, 1932-1934.
Lecturer, associate professor professor political science and philosophy New School for Social Research, New York City, 1938-1948. Professor political philosophy University of Chicago, 1949-1968, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor. Professor political science Claremont Men’s College, 1968-1969.
Scott Buchanan distinguised scholar-in-residence St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland., from 1969. Visiting professor philosophy, political science Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1954-1955, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1953. Author: The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, 1936.
On Tyranny, 1950; Persecution and the Art of Writing, 1952. Natural Right and History, 1953. Thoughts on Machiavelli, 1958.
What is Political Philosophy, 1959. The City and Man, 1964. Spinoza’s Critique of Religion, 1965.
Socrates and Aristophanes, 1965. Associate editor Social Research, 1941-1948. Co-editor History of Political Philosophy, 1963.
Home: Annapolis, Maryland.
Married Miriam Bernson, June 20, 1933. Children: Jenny Ann, Thomas.