Horace Meyer Kallen was a German-born American philosopher who supported pluralism and Zionism.
12 Facts About Horace Kallen
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Horace Meyer Kallen was born on August 11,1882, in the town of Bernstadt, Prussian Silesia.
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Horace Kallen's parents were Jacob David Kallen, an Orthodox rabbi, and Esther Rebecca Glazier.
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That same year, Horace Kallen was personally hired by future American President Woodrow Wilson, then Princeton University's president, to become the first Jew to ever teach at the university.
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In 1908, Horace Kallen received his doctorate and was awarded a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship to study at Oxford University.
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Horace Kallen was a lifetime friend of Alain Locke, whom he met at Harvard and who was the first African-American Rhodes Scholar; and would remain the only one until the 1960s.
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Horace Kallen lectured in philosophy at Harvard from his graduation until 1911, occasionally working as a logic instructor at Clark College in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Horace Kallen was acquainted with William James, whose last unfinished book he edited.
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Horace Kallen was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Western Philosophical Society, the Society for Psychical Research, the Zionist Organization of America, the Palestine Development Council, and the National Council of the League of Nations Association.
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Horace Kallen served on congressional committees on international peace and was a part of many think tanks and study groups on questions ranging from philosophy and law to labor relations.
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Horace Kallen died, aged 91, on February 16,1974, in Palm Beach, Florida.
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In 1928, Horace Kallen spoke at a memorial service for Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, during which he stated that if Sacco and Vanzetti had been anarchists, then so was Jesus.