Max Horkheimer: biographical data
| 1895 | Max Horkheimer was born on 14th February as the son of the factory owner Moses Horkheimer on Stuttgart | ||
| 1911 | Finishes grammar school and starts vocational training in commerce. Befriends Friedrich Pollock | ||
| 1914-1919 | Works in his father's factory, participates in the First World War 1917/1918 and sits for his A-levels in 1919 | ||
| 1919-1922 | Studies psychology and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg i.Br. and Frankfurt am Main. Receives his PhD in Frankfurt am Main under Hans Cornelius (1863-1947) with the title "Antinomie der teleologischen Urteislkraft". He befriends Felix Weill and Theodor W.Adorno. | ||
| 1925 | Habilitation in Frankfurt/Main. Title of thesis "Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft als Bindeglied zwischen theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie" | ||
| 1926 | Private lecturer in Frankfurt am Main. Marriage to Rosa Christine (Maidon) Riekher | ||
| 1930 | Appointed professor for social philosophy | ||
| 1931 | Along with Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse Horkheimer he belongs to the co-founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main. He becomes director in 1931 | ||
| 1932-1939 | Editor of "Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung" | ||
| 1933 | After the Institute for Social Research is closed by the National Socialists Horkheimer emigrates first to Switzerland | ||
| 1934 | Emigration to the US; here Horkheimer sets up again the Institute for Social Research at the Columbia University in New York | ||
| 1937 | Short visit to Europe; encounters Benjamin | ||
| 1940 | Horkheimer receives American citizenship and moves to California where he works together with Adorno on "Dialektik der Aufklärung" between 1942 and 1944 | ||
| 1940-1942 | Editor of "Studies in Philosophy and social Science" as a continuation of "Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung" | ||
| 1943-1949 | Director of the academic department of the American Jewish Committee. He is in charge of a comprehensive research project in Anti-Semitism and produces "Studies in Prejudice" - a work in five volumes | ||
| 1947 | The "Dialektik der Aufklärung", which Horkheimer produces with Adorno, is published by Querido in Amsterdam in 1947 but does not appear in Germany until 1969 | ||
| 1949 | Horkheimer returns to Germany and is appointed professor for social philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main | ||
| 1951 | The Institute for Social Research is re-opened in Frankfurt am Main | ||
| 1951-1953 | Appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Frankfurt am Main | ||
| 1953 | Awarded the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt am Main | ||
| 1954-1959 | Horkheimer holds lectures at the University of Chicago | ||
| 1959 | After emeritus status is conferred on Horkheimer he moves to Montagnola near Lugano | ||
| 1960 | Awarded honorary citizenship of the City of Frankfurt am Main | ||
| 1969 | Death of Maidon Horkheimer (née Riekher) | ||
| 1970 | Publication of "Traditionelle und kritische Theorie" | ||
| 1971 | Awarded the Lessing Prize of the city of Hamburg | ||
| 1973 | Max Horkheimer dies in Nürnberg on 7th July | ||
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