Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss (born September 20, 1899, Kirchhain, Germany—died October 18, 1973, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.) was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States and an influential political philosopher and interpreter of classical political theory. Strauss served in the German army during World War I. After receiving a doctoral degree from the University of Hamburg (1921), he was a research assistant at the Academy for Jewish Research, Berlin (1925–32), and then worked as a Rockefeller fellow in...