| 8.2.1878 | birth of Martin Mordechai Buber in Vienna |
| After the divorce of his parents, Buber comes to Lemberg (Polish Ukraine), at that time part of the Habsburgian Empire, where his grand-parents lived: Salomon Buber (large landed property owner and banker, scientific editor of Hebrew Midrash literature) and Adele Buber (caretaker of the property, enthusiastic reader of German classics). Buber grew up multilingually: Yiddish and German at home, Hebrew and French already in his childhood, Polish at secondary school. | |
| 1892 | Buber comes to the house of his father at Lemberg, who has married again. Religious crisis leading to the brak with the Jewish religious customs. Reads Kant and Nietzsche. |
| 1896 | student in Vienna (philosophy, art history, German studies, philology) |
| 1898 | joins Zionism
Participation in congresses, organizational work, agitation. controversy with Herzl about political and cultural direction |
| 1899 | in Zurich: meeting of Paula Winkler from Munich, his later wife (a writer with the pen-name Georg Munk) |
| 1900 | birth of his first child Rafael |
| 1901 | birth of his second child Eva
editior of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist world organization |
| from 1903 | occupation with the Chassidic message |
| 1904 | withdrawal from the organizational works
promotion, thesis: "Beiträge zur Geschichte des Individuationsproblems" (about Jakob Böhme and Nikolaus Cusanus) |
| 1905/06 | Florence, working at the (later abandoned) habilitation in art history |
| 1906 | Die Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman |
| 1908 | Die Legende des Baalschem |
| 1909 | Ekstatische Konfessionen (ecstatic confessions) |
| 1909-11 | first three Reden über das Judentum in Prague. |
| 1910
to 1914 |
studies about myths, edition of mythic texts:
Tschunang-Tse. Reden und Gleichnisse. Chinesische Geister- und Liebesgeschichten Kalewala. Das Nationalepos der Finnen.(national Finn epic) Die vier Zweige des Mabinogi. Ein keltisches Sagenbuch.(Celtic sages) |
| 1913 | Daniel. Gespräch von der Verwirklichung. |
| 1916 | moves from Berlin to Heppenheim
editor of Der Jude. Eine Monatsschrift. (until 1924) |
| 1921 | beginning of the closer relationship to Franz Rosenzweig. |
| 1922 | co-operation at Franz Rosenzweig's Freiem Jüdischem Lehrhaus. |
| 1923 | mastership at the University of Frankfurt: Jewish Religious
Studies and Jewish ethics for the ill Franz Rosenzweig
I and Thou. |
| 1925 | beginning of the Verdeutschung der Schrift (translation of the Hebrew Bible into German) |
| 1926-28 | co-editor of the quarterly published Die Kreatur (the creature) |
| 1927 | Fünf Bücher der Weisung (pentateuch) |
| from 1930 | honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt |
| 1933 | resignment from professorship immediately after Hitler's
seizure of power.
deprived of the permission to give lectures on October 4 establishment of the Mittelstelle für jüdische Erwachsenenbildung: bible courses with increasing administrative obstruction |
| 1938 | Buber leaves Germany in March |
| professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
anthropology and introduction into sociology
participated in the discussion of the Jews' problems in Palestine and the question of the Arabs working out of the biblical, philosophic and chassidic work member of the group Ichud, which aimed at a bi-national state. |
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| 1946 | Paths in Utopia |
| 1947 | first lecture tour to Europe |
| from 1951/52 | lecture tours to the USA, courses at universities |
| 1951 | Goethe award of the University of Hamburg |
| 1953 | Peace Prize of the German Booktrade |
| 1958 | on the return from the USA and Europe: death of Paula in Venice. Buber falls ill for a longer part of time. |
| 1963 | Erasmus Award in Amsterdam |
| 13.6.1965 | death in his house in Talbyen, Jerusalem. Burial on the cemetary Har-Hamenuchot in Jerusalem |
