Walter Benjamin
1892–1940
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
writer · translator · sociologist
Born in Berlin
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Walter Benjamin:
- Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
- Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924)
- Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
- Joseph Stalin (1878–1953)
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