Martin Buber

Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בּוּבֶּר‎; German: Martin Buber; Yiddish: מארטין בובער‎; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian philosopher, well-known for Philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism on the distinction between the I and Thou and the I-It relationship.^[2]

Martin Buber
Born	February 8, 1878 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	June 13, 1965(1965-06-13) (aged 87) Jerusalem, Israel
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophers Existentialism
Main interests	Ontology Philosophical anthropology
Notable ideas	Ich-Du and Ich-Es
Influences Immanuel Kant Chuang Tzu Søren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Ludwig Feuerbach Ralph Waldo Emerson Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Sigmund Freud Jacob L. Moreno Wilhelm Dilthey Georg Simmel Rudolf Bultmann
Influenced Abraham Joshua Heschel Walter Kaufmann Gabriel Marcel Franz Rosenzweig Hans Urs von Balthasar Fritz Perls Laura Perls John Berger Emil Brunner[1]

He was born in Vienna to a Jewish family but later abandoned Jewish customs to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, he owned the daily newspaper Die Welt - the central organ of the Zionist movement, although he later withdrew from Zionist organizing activities. In 1923, he wrote Ich und Du ("I and Thou"), and in 1925 began translating Hebrew Bible into German.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ten times and the Nobel Peace Prize seven times.^[3]