Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik : Welt - Endlichkeit - Einsamkeit. Hrsg. von Friedrich Wilhelm von Herrmann; Klostermann Rote Reihe; 6;

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was born in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. He studied at the University of Freiburg and became a professor at the University of Marburg in 1932. After publishing his his magnum opus, Being and Time (1927), he returned to Freiburg to assume the chair of philosophy upon Husserl's retirement.