Walter Kaufmann

Walter Kaufmann taught philosophy at Princeton for more than three decades and became one of the most influential scholars and translators of Friedrich Nietzsche in English, work credited with restoring serious philosophical attention to a thinker whose reputation had been distorted by Nazi misappropriation. He also translated Goethe's Faust and Martin Buber's I and Thou, and wrote across existentialism, theism and atheism, and the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, including a 1965 study of Hegel.