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A specialized script hides a library from the wrong people
In 1939, a Franciscan priest stands at a widow's door in Freiburg, planning to move a dangerous philosophy library across a border.
A specialized script hides a library from the wrong people
This episode explores the story of Herman Van Breda, a monk who undertook a mission to preserve the life's work of a philosopher. It delves into the origins of phenomenology and the ideas that made it a target.
Person: Herman Van Breda
Date: 1939
Location: Freiburg
Topic: Phenomenology
Author: Edmund Husserl
- Herman Van Breda, a 26-year-old monk, sought to save 40,000 pages of philosophical work.
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