Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)

Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann, undated
Born	(1921-07-01)July 1, 1921 Freiburg, Germany
Died	September 4, 1980(1980-09-04) (aged 59) Princeton, New Jersey, United States[1]
Education	Williams College Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Institutions	Princeton University
Main interests	Existentialism, philosophy of religion, tragedy

Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 – September 4, 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. He served more than 30 years as a professor at Princeton University.

He is renowned as a scholar and translator of Friedrich Nietzsche. He also wrote a 1965 book on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published a translation of Goethe's Faust, and Martin Buber's I and Thou.