Name Arnold Bergstraesser | ||
Books Goethe's Image of Man and Society | ||
Arnold Bergstraesser (July 14, 1896 in Darmstadt - February 24, 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German political scientist. Along with Wolfgang Abendroth, Theodor Eschenburg, and Eric Voegelin, he was one of the founders of political science in West Germany after World War II.
Biography
Bergstraesser was a founding member of the German Academic Exchange Service in 1925. He received his doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1923 and earned his habilitation in 1928. He fled Germany in 1937, as his university service at Heidelberg was terminated due to his family's Jewish origins.
He taught until 1954 at several American universities including the University of Chicago, where Georg Iggers was among his students. He returned to a professorship in Sociology and Political Science at the University of Freiburg in 1954.