Valentin Feldman
Valentin Feldman (born June 23, 1909 in Saint Petersburg , Russia , † July 27, 1942 on Mont Valérien in Suresnes) was a French philosopher and fighter of the Resistance .
Life
Feldman grew up in St Petersburg as the son of Jewish parents. After fleeing the civil war in Russia with his mother, he lived in Paris from 1923. He studied at the Henri IV Gymnasium and then at the Sorbonne . He was a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre , Simone de Beauvoir , Claude Lévi-Strauss and Simone Weil . Feldman was very interested in aesthetics and wrote L'Esthétique française contemporaine (Paris, Félix Alcan) in 1936 . In 1937 he joined the French Communist Party .
When mobilized in 1939, he fought during the 1940 military campaign and was honored for his services. He worked in Dieppe as a philosophy professor and followed with Georges Politzer of the communist resistance in September 1940. In 1941 he wrote for the underground newspaper L'Avenir normand . But in the same year he was dismissed from teaching as a Jew. He was arrested on February 5, 1942 in Rouen , transferred to the Secret Field Police and taken to Fresnes prison ( Maison d'arrêt de Fresnes ) near Paris. After his trial, he was executed on July 27, 1942 on Mont Valérien by firing squad.
Shortly before his death, he called out to the German soldiers: "Imbéciles, c'est pour vous que je meurs!" ("I die for you, you idiots!")
Works
- L'Esthétique française contemporaine , Paris, Félix Alcan, 1936.
- Journal de guerre 1940–1941 , Tours, Farrago, 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ L'Humanité May 19, 2007 , accessed June 18, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feldman, Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Petersburg , Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1942 |
| Place of death | Mont Valérien |