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Eric Voegelin

German-American political scientist
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Eric Voegelin (born Jan. 3, 1901, Cologne—died Jan. 19, 1985, Stanford, Calif., U.S.) was a German-American political scientist and interdisciplinary scholar known for his studies of modern political thought and for his efforts to create a comprehensive philosophy of man, society, and history. Voegelin earned a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1922, where he taught law from 1929 to 1938. He escaped to Switzerland when the Nazis annexed Austria, and he subsequently went...

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