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Jean Améry
AuthorBooks · Second hand1912-1978
Jean Améry, born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978.
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About Jean Améry
Birth
1912
Death
1978
First book
1935
Years writing
91
Jean Améry, born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978.
Jean Améry was born under the name Hans Chaim Maier in Vienna.
His pseudonym is an anagram of his original surname, Mayer, combined with the French version of his name, Hans.
He was an active resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Belgium.
His work is deeply shaped by his experience as a survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Beyond being a writer, he was a prominent philosopher and journalist who explored themes such as old age and modern civilization.
