Ernst Jünger

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Ernst Jünger was a German writer, soldier, and intellectual best known for his World War I memoir "Storm of Steel" and his influential, often controversial reflections on war, technology, and modernity.

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Ernst Jünger canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf diarist
essayist
human
intellectual
novelist
soldier
writer
ageAtDeath 102
awardReceived Iron Cross
Pour le Mérite
causeOfDeath natural causes
conflict World War I
convertedTo Roman Catholicism
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Germany
dateOfBirth 1895-03-29
dateOfDeath 1998-02-17
describedBySource World War I memoirist
educatedAt Freiburg University
surface form: University of Freiburg

University of Leipzig
University of Naples Federico II NERFINISHED
era 20th-century philosophy
Weimar Republic
ethnicGroup German
familyName Jünger
fieldOfWork aesthetics
political philosophy
technology and modernity
war and society
genre diary
essay
novel
war literature
givenName Ernst
hasSubject modernity
nihilism
technology
total mobilization
war
influenced Carl Schmitt
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Martin Heidegger
conservative revolutionary thinkers
influencedBy Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
languageOfWorkOrName German
lifespan 1895–1998
militaryBranch Imperial German Army
militaryRank officer
movement conservative revolutionary movement
modernism
name Ernst Jünger self-link
notableIdea the worker as a figure of modernity
total mobilization
notableWork Auf den Marmorklippen
Der Arbeiter
Heliopolis
In Stahlgewittern
On the Marble Cliffs
Storm of Steel
The Glass Bees
The Worker
occupation author
philosophical writer
soldier
participantIn Battle of Cambrai (1918)
surface form: Battle of Cambrai

Battle of the Somme
World War I
placeOfBirth Grand Duchy of Baden
Heidelberg
placeOfDeath Baden-Württemberg
Riedlingen
politicalAlignment conservative revolutionary
politicalStance critic of liberal democracy
critic of mass society
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Wilflingen
sexOrGender male
sibling Friedrich Georg Jünger
spouse Gretha von Jeinsen
wrote An der Zeitmauer
Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis
Der Waldgang
Eumeswil
Heliopolis
On the Marble Cliffs
Storm of Steel
Strahlungen
The Glass Bees
The Worker
Über den Schmerz

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Ernst hasNotableBearer Ernst Jünger
Ernst Bloch influenced Ernst Jünger
Hebbel Prize hasAwarded Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger name Ernst Jünger self-link