Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss Leo Strauss was born in Kirchhain, Hesse, Germany, on 20 September 1899 to a Jewish family and died in Annapolis, Maryland, on 18 October 1973. He took his doctorate at Hamburg in 1921 under Ernst Cassirer, worked at the Academy for Jewish Research in Berlin, and, with the rise of Nazism, left Germany in 1932 on a Rockefeller fellowship, passing through Paris and England before settling in the United States. He taught at the New School for Social Research (1938–1949) and the University of Chicago (1949–1968), ending his career at Claremont Men’s College and St. John’s College in Annapolis. ...