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Eva Brann is a former dean and the longest-serving tutor (1957–present) at St. John’s College, Annapolis. She is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Brann was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and received both her M.A. in Classics and her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale in 1956. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College. Among the most recent of her many books are The Logos of Heraclitus (2011); Un-Willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of the Will’s Power and an Attempt to Undo It (2014.); and Then and Now: The World’s Center and the Soul’s Demesne (2015.) She has translated her friend Jacob Klein’s notable book Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, and has translated several Platonic dialogues.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 30, 2018.
Eva Brann is a former dean and the longest-serving tutor (1957–present) at St. John’s College, Annapolis. She is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Brann was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. She emigrated to the United States in 1941 and received both her M.A. in Classics and her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale in 1956. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College. Among the most recent of her many books are The Logos of Heraclitus (2011); Un-Willing: An Inquiry into the Rise of the Will’s Power and an Attempt to Undo It (2014.); and Then and Now: The World’s Center and the Soul’s Demesne (2015.) She has translated her friend Jacob Klein’s notable book Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, and has translated several Platonic dialogues.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 30, 2018.
