Edith Stein
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Edith Stein was a German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She was murdered in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp on 9 August
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross in 1938–39
Edith Stein Student at Breslau
Icon in Bad Bergzabern. The scroll shows a quote from her works: "The innermost essence of love is self-offering. The entryway to all things is the Cross"
Memorial to Edith Stein in Stella Maris Monastery, Haifa, Israel
Edmund Husserl
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Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was an Austrian and German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.
Edith Stein
…worked in an infectious diseases hospital. After completing her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg in 1916, she obtained an assistantship to Edmund Husserl there. From reading the life of the reformer of the Carmelites, Teresa of Ávila, Stein was drawn to the Christian faith. She was baptized on 1 January…
Husserl, c. 1910s
Edmund Husserl c. 1900
The Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics in Freiburg, Husserl's home 1937–1938
Husserl's gravestone at Günterstal