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Amos Funkenstein (born March 9, 1937 in Tel Aviv , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ; died November 11, 1995 in Berkeley ) was an Israeli historian.

Life

Amos Funkenstein was a son of the historian Josef Funkenstein, who fled Germany to Palestine during the Nazi era .

Funkenstein attended school in Jerusalem and did his military service. He began studying history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956 and after two years went to the Free University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1965 with the dissertation Determination of the Present, Concept of Salvation and Thought of Development in Historical Thought in the High Middle Ages under Wilhelm Berges .

From 1968 he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles . Since the late 1970s, he has also taught at Tel Aviv University . In 1985 he went to the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris with a Guggenheim Fellowship . In 1986 he moved to Stanford University , returned to UCLA in 1989 and was appointed professor of Jewish history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 . Funkenstein wrote seven books in German, Hebrew, English, and French, and around a hundred articles, reviews, and mishaps. In 1995 he received the Israel Prize for History.

Funkenstein had two children from his first marriage. He was buried in the Rolling Hills Memorial Park in Richmond .

Fonts (selection)

• Plan of Salvation and Natural Development: Forms of Determination of the Present in Historical Thinking of the High Middle Ages. Nymphenburger, Munich 1965.
• Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1986.
• Maïmonide: nature, histoire et messianisme. Translation from Hebrew by C. Chalier. Le Cerf, Paris 1988 (Hebrew 1983).
• Perceptions of Jewish history. University of California Press, Berkeley 1993.
  • Jewish history and its interpretations. Translation by Christian Wiese . Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-633-54099-0 .
• Gadi Algazi, Gad Freudenthal, Esti Micenmacher: List of publications , with 120 articles, reviews, miscommunication, at TAU, PDF.

literature

• Robert S. Westman: Eloge: Amos Funkenstein, 9 March 1937–11 November 1995 , in: Isis 90, no. 3 (Sep., 1999) pp. 554–557
• David Biale : The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: Notes Toward an Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein . Jewish Social Studies. Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 1999 pp. 1-5 ISSN  1527-2028
• David Biale, Robert S Westman (Eds.): Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-4426-8940-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Amos Funkenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Amos Funkenstein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Funkenstein, Amos .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Amos Funkenstein (1937–1995) , cv at TAU
• Renaissance man Amos Funkenstein dies at age 58 , at jweekly, November 17, 1995
• David Engel : The Concept of Antisemitism in the Historical Scholarship of Amos Funkenstein , Jewish Social Studies 6.1 (1999) pp. 111-129