Herbert Marcuse: biographical data
| 1898 | Herbert Marcuse was born in Berlin on 19th July the son of a jewish textile factory owner from Pommern |
| 1917 - 1919 | Member of the SPD |
| 1918 | Military service in First World War |
| During the revolution Marcuse is elected to join the soldier’s council in Berlin–Reinickendorf. | |
| 1919 - 1922 | Marcuse studied philosophy at the Universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He received his PhD in Freiburg in1922 with a thesis on the German artist novel. |
| 1924 | Marcuse marries Sophie Wertheim. In 1928 their son Peter is born. |
| 1928 | Return to Freiburg to continue studies under Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger |
| 1930 | Alongside Erich Fromm and Max Horkheimer Marcuse belongs to the co-founders of the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt/Main. |
| 1932 | Marcuse gives up the intention to habilitate under Heidegger, his habiltation paper is nevertheless published. He leaves Germany and goes first of all to Geneva and then to Paris as a member of the Frankfurt Institut für Sozialforschung. |
| 1934 | Marcuse emigrates to New York where he works as a member of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Columbia. |
| 1940 | Marcuse is given American citizenship. |
| 1942 - 1950 | He works as section director in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, the US counter-intelligence service, and is the successor to Franz L. Neumann: head of the European department. |
| ab 1950 | Various teaching contracts and research projects at American universities |
| 1950 - 1951 | Lectures at the Washington School of Psychiatry |
| 1954 - 1965 | Professor for political sciences at the Brandeis University in Waltham/Massachussetts |
| 1956 | After the death of his wife Sophie (1951) he marries Inge Werner, the widow of Franz L. Neumann. |
| 1956 | Participation at the commemorative ceremony of Sigmund Freud in Frankfurt am Main |
| 1961 - 1968 | Repeated lectures in Paris |
| 1964 | Publication of "Der eindimensionale Mensch" |
| 1964 | Guest professor in Frankfurt am Main Participation at the 15th Deutschen Soziologentag in Heidelberg |
| 1965 | Marcuse is given a chair at the University of California in San Diego. |
| 1966/67 | Strong involvement against the Vietnam war. Participation at Hegel Congress in Prague. |
| 1967 | Marcuse is the main speaker at a Congress held by the Berlin SDS, which was organised to a great extent by Rudi Dutschke. Marcuse gives the keynote lecture "The End of Utopia" and a further lecture bearing the title "The Problem of Violence in the Opposition". He participates in two scheduled discussions. A proposed guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin is not realised. |
| 1972 | Participation at the Angela-Davis-Congress in Frankfurt am Main |
| 1974 | Participation at the celebrations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt am Main |
| 1974 - 1979 | Repeated lectures and discussion at the Max-Planck Institute in Starnberg on researching the conditions of life in the scientific-technical world |
| 1976 | After the death of his wife Inge (1973) he marries Erica Sherover. |
| 1979 | On 29th July Herbert Marcuse dies during a visit to Germany in Starnberg. |
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