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Ernst Kantorowicz - A Life (Hardcover)
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Ernst Kantorowicz - A Life (Hardcover)
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This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz
(1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American
intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many
of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian
whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond his field, he is most
famous for two books--a notoriously nationalistic 1927 biography of
the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and The King's Two Bodies
(1957), a classic study of medieval politics. Born into a wealthy
Prussian-Jewish family, Kantorowicz fought on the Western Front in
World War I, was wounded at Verdun, and earned an Iron Cross;
later, he earned an Iron Crescent for service in Anatolia before an
affair with a general's mistress led to Kantorowicz being sent
home. After the war, he fought against Poles in his native Posen,
Spartacists in Berlin, and communists in Munich. An ardent German
nationalist during the Weimar period, Kantorowicz became a member
of the elitist Stefan George circle, which nurtured a cult of the
"Secret Germany." Yet as a professor in Frankfurt after the Nazis
came to power, Kantorowicz bravely spoke out against the regime
before an overflowing crowd. Narrowly avoiding arrest after
Kristallnacht, he fled to England and then the United States, where
he joined the faculty at Berkeley, only to be fired in 1950 for
refusing to sign an anticommunist "loyalty oath." From there, he
"fell up the ladder" to Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study,
where he stayed until his death. Drawing on many new sources,
including numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Robert E.
Lerner tells the story of a major intellectual whose life and times
were as fascinating as his work.
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