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Arendt was born of secular [[Jew]]ish Jewish parents in the then- independent city of Linden in Lower Saxony (which is now part of [[Hanover]]) and was raised in [[Königsberg]] (the hometown of her admired precursor [[Immanuel Kant]]) and [[Berlin]].

She studied philosophy with [[Martin Heidegger]] at the [[University of Marburg]], and had a long, sporadic romantic relationship with him, something that has been criticised because of his [[Nazism|Nazi]] sympathies.

During one of their breakups, Arendt moved to [[Heidelberg]] to write a dissertation on the concept of love in the thought of [[Augustine of Hippo|Saint Augustine]], under the direction of the existentialist philosopher-psychologist [[Karl Jaspers]].

The dissertation was published in 1929, but Arendt was prevented from ''[[habilitating]]'' (and thus from teaching in German universities) in 1933 because she was Jewish, and thereupon fled Germany for Paris, where she met and befriended the literary critic and [[Marxism|Marxist]] mystic [[Walter Benjamin]]. While in France, Arendt worked to support and aid Jewish refugees.

However, with the [[Germany|German]] military occupation of parts of France following the French declaration of war during [[World War II]], and the deportation of Jews to [[concentration camp]]scamps, Arendt had to flee from France. In 1940, she married the German poet and philosopher [[Heinrich Blücher]].

In 1941, Arendt escaped with her husband and her mother to the [[United States]] with the assistance of the American diplomat [[Hiram Bingham IV]], who illegally issued visas to her and around 2500 other Jewish refugees. She then became active in the German-Jewish community in New York and wrote for the weekly ''[[Aufbau]]''.

After World War II she resumed relations with Heidegger, and testified on his behalf in a German [[denazification]] hearing. In 1950, she became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United States, and in 1959 became the first woman appointed a full professorship at Princeton. She also taught at The New School in New York City and served as a visiting scholar on The Committee of Social Thought at The University of Chicago.

On her death at age 69 in 1975, Arendt was buried at [[Bard College]] in [[Annandale-on-Hudson, New York]], where her husband taught for many years.