Kurt Sternberg was a German philosopher and author.

Sternberg, who was Jewish, fled to the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 in 1939 to escape the National Socialists. He was nonetheless detained and sent to the Westerbork concentration camp and from there, to Auschwitz, where he perished in September 1942.

There is a stolperstein in memory of Sternberg at Uhlandstraße 175 in the Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, named after Queen consort Sophia Charlotte...

 neighborhood of Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

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Selected literary works

• Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte des kantischen Denkens bis zur Grundlegung des Kritizismus (1909)
• Neukantische Aufgaben (1931)
• Die Geburt des Etwas aus dem Nichts, Pan-Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin (1933)
• Philosophische Probleme im biblischen und apokryphen Schrifttum der Juden, Berlin, Goldstein (1938)

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