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German philosopher of hermeneutics and existentialism Martin Heidegger.
Elfride Petri was a Lutheran who married the German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1917. Her marriage to Heidegger marked the completion of his break with the Roman Catholic faith of his youth.1