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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre, photograph by Gisèle Freund, 1968.
Jean-Paul Sartre spent a year in Berlin during 1933–1934 to study the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. This period of study, which interrupted his teaching career, was instrumental in his development of phenomenology and existentialism.12