Editing Hannah Arendt (section)

===== Freiburg and Heidelberg (1926–1929) =====
After a year at Marburg, Arendt spent a semester at Freiburg, attending the lectures of Husserl.{{sfn|d'Entreves|2014}} In 1926 she moved to the [[University of Heidelberg]], completing her [[dissertation]] in 1929 under Karl Jaspers.{{sfn|Villa|2000|p=xiii}} Jaspers, a friend of Heidegger, was the other leading figure of the then-new and revolutionary ''[[Existential philosophy|Existenzphilosophie]]''.{{sfn|Villa|2009}} Her thesis was entitled ''[[Love and Saint Augustine|Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin: Versuch einer philosophischen Interpretation]]'' (On the concept of love in the thought of [[Augustine of Hippo|Saint Augustine]]: Attempt at a philosophical interpretation).{{sfn|Arendt|1929}} She remained a lifelong friend of Jaspers and his wife, Gertrud Mayer, developing a deep intellectual relationship with him.{{sfn|Arendt|Jaspers|1992}} At Heidelberg, her circle of friends included Hans Jonas, who had also moved from Marburg to study [[Augustine]], working on his {{lang|de|Augustin und das paulinische Freiheitsproblem. Ein philosophischer Beitrag zur Genesis der christlich-abendländischen Freiheitsidee}} (1930),{{efn|''Augustin and the Pauline freedom problem. A philosophical contribution to the genesis of the Christian-Western idea of freedom''}} and also a group of three young philosophers: [[Karl Frankenstein]], [[Erich Neumann (psychologist)|Erich Neumann]] and [[:de:Erwin Loewenson|Erwin Loewenson]].{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=66}} Other friends and students of Jaspers were the linguists [[:de:Benno von Wiese|Benno von Wiese]] and [[:de:Hugo Friedrich|Hugo Friedrich]] (seen with Hannah, below), with whom she attended lectures by [[Friedrich Gundolf]] at Jaspers' suggestion and who kindled in her an interest in [[German Romanticism]]. She also became reacquainted, at a lecture, with [[Kurt Blumenfeld]], who introduced her to Jewish politics. At Heidelberg, she lived in the old town ({{lang|de|Altstadt}}) near the [[Heidelberg Castle|castle]], at Schlossberg 16. The house was demolished in the 1960s, but the one remaining wall bears a plaque commemorating her time there.{{sfn|Jen|2016}}

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|image1=Arendt in Heidelberg (cropped).jpg|caption1=Hannah Arendt (2nd from right), [[:de:Benno von Wiese|Benno von Wiese]] (far right), [[:de:Hugo Friedrich|Hugo Friedrich]] (2nd from left) and friend at Heidelberg University 1928|alt1=Photo of Hannah with student friends at the university at Heildelberg in 1928
|image2=HannahArendtHeidelberg 1.jpg|caption2 = Plaque marking Arendt's residence in Heidelberg |alt2= Plaque on house where Hannah lived at Heidelberg
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On completing her dissertation, Arendt turned to her {{lang|de|[[Habilitationsschrift]]}}, initially on German Romanticism,{{sfn|Zebadúa Yáñez|2018}} and thereafter an academic teaching career. However 1929 was also the year of the [[Great Depression|Depression]] and the end of the golden years ({{lang|de|Goldene Zwanziger}}) of the [[Weimar Republic]], which was to become increasingly unstable over its remaining four years. Arendt, as a Jew, had little if any chance of obtaining an academic appointment in Germany.{{sfn|Saussy|2013}} Nevertheless, she completed most of the work before she was forced to leave Germany.{{sfn|Weissberg|Elon|1999}}