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Albert Camus
Albert Camus, photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
At the University of Algiers, Albert Camus was registered as a philosophy student.1
During his time there, he was significantly influenced by his teacher, Jean Grenier, who helped him develop his philosophical and literary ideas. In 1936, Camus obtained a diplĂŽme dâĂ©tudes supĂ©rieures for a thesis that explored the relationship between Greek and Christian thought in the philosophical writings of Plotinus and St. Augustine. He later pursued the agrĂ©gationâa qualification required for a university teaching careerâbut his studies were interrupted by a severe attack of tuberculosis.1