Alice von Hildebrand
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Alice von Hildebrand | |
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| Born | March 11, 1923 Brussels, Belgium |
| Alma mater | Fordham University |
| Occupation | philosopher, theologian, professor, lecturer, author |
| Employer | Hunter College |
| Spouse(s) | Dietrich von Hildebrand |
Alice M. von Hildebrand, DCSG[1] (born March 11, 1923) is a Catholic philosopher, theologian, lecturer, author, and former professor; she is also the second wife of Dietrich von Hildebrand.
Early life[]
She was born Alice Jourdin on March 11, 1923, in Brussels, Belgium.
Career[]
She moved to the United States in 1940 and began teaching at Hunter College in New York City in 1947.[1]
Von Hildebrand retired in 1984.[1] She lives in the United States and is a lecturer and author.[1] She has made more than 80 appearances on EWTN television programming.[1] In 2004, she launched the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project with some of her husband's former students.[1] Her works include The Soul of a Lion: The Life of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2000), a biography of her husband, and her autobiography, Memoirs of a Happy Failure (2014),[2] which recounts her escape from Nazi Europe and her teaching career at Hunter College.
Views[]
Von Hildebrand has criticized what she considers to be the advance of relativism[2] and modernism in the Catholic Church, particularly within its institutions of Catholic higher education and its Catholic schools.
Personal life[]
In 1959, she married philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977), having met him at Fordham University in New York City, where she was a student and he was a professor (his first wife had died in 1957). They remained married until his death.
Von Hildebrand is a Dame Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, a papal knighthood.[3]
Bibliography[]
- Greek Culture, the Adventure of the Human Spirit, editor (G. Braziller, 1966)
- Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion (Franciscan Herald Press, 1970)
- By Love Refined: Letters to a Young Bride (Sophia Institute Press, 1989)
- Women and the Priesthood (Franciscan University Press, 1994) ISBN 0-940535-72-6
- By Grief Refined: Letters to a Widow (Franciscan University Press, 1994)
- Memoiren und Aufsätze gegen den Nationalsozialismus, 1933–1938, with Dietrich von Hildebrand and Rudolf Ebneth, (Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, 1994) ISBN 978-3-7867-1737-9
- Soul of a Lion: Dietrich Von Hildebrand; A Biography (Ignatius Press, 2000) ISBN 0-89870-801-X
- The Privilege of Being a Woman (Veritas Press, 2002)
- Man and Woman: A Divine Invention (Ignatius Press, 2010) ISBN 1-932589-56-2
- Memoirs of a Happy Failure, with John Henry Crosby (Saint Benedict Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-618901-26-2
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Alice von Hildebrand". Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b von Hildebrand, Alice; Crosby, John Henry. Memoirs of a Happy Failure. Saint Benedictine Press. ISBN 978-1-618901-26-2. Archived from the original on 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ "Pope names Alice von Hildebrand to prestigious order". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
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- 1923 births
- 20th-century Belgian women writers
- 21st-century Belgian women writers
- Belgian emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century Belgian Roman Catholic theologians
- Belgian women writers
- Catholic philosophers
- Dames Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great
- Fordham University alumni
- Hildebrand family
- Hunter College faculty
- Living people
- Philosophers of religion
- Roman Catholic writers
- Women religious writers