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1889 – 1976Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)Died 26 May 1976, aged 86Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher known for Being and Time and his influence on existentialism and phenomenology, died in Freiburg. His philosophical legacy remains deeply contested because of his membership in the Nazi Party and rectorship of Freiburg University in 1933. He is nonetheless regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.