Max Horkheimer: biographical data

1911		Finishes grammar school and starts vocational training in commerce. Befriends Friedrich Pollock
1914-1919		Works in his father's factory, participates in the First World War 1917/1918 and sits for his A-levels in 1919
1919-1922		Studies psychology and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg i.Br. and Frankfurt a.M. Receives his PhD in Frankfurt/Main under Hans Cornelius (1863-1947) with the title "Antinomie der teleologischen Urteislkraft". He befriends Felix Weill and Theodor W.Adorno.
1925		Habilitation in Frankfurt/Main. Title of thesis "Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft als Bindeglied zwischen theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie"
1926		Private lecturer in Frankfurt am Main. Marriage to Rosa Riekher
1930		Appointed professor for social philosophy
1931		Along with Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse Horkheimer he belongs to the co-founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. He becomes director in 1931
1932-1939		Editor of "Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung"
1933		After the Institute for Social Research is closed by the National Socialists Horkheimer emigrates first to Switzerland
1934		Emigration to the US; here Horkheimer sets up again the Institute for Social Research at the Columbia University in New York
1937		Short visit to Europe; encounters Benjamin
1940		Horkheimer receives American citizenship and moves to California where he works together with Adorno on "Dialektik der Aufklärung" between 1942 and 1944
1940-1942		Editor of "Studies in Philosophy and social Science" as a continuation of "Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung"
1943-1949		Director of the academic department of the American Jewish Committee. He is in charge of a comprehensive research project in Anti-Semitism and produces "Studies in Prejudice" - a work in five volumes
1947		The "Dialektik der Aufklärung", which Horkheimer produces with Adorno, is published by Querido in Amsterdam in 1947 but does not appear in Germany until 1969
1949		Horkheimer returns to Germany and is appointed professor for social philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main
1950		The Institute for Social Research is re-opened in Frankfurt am Main
1951-1953		Appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Frankfurt am Main
1953		Awarded the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt am Main
1954-1959		Horkheimer holds lectures at the University of Chicago
1959		After emeritus status is conferred on Horkheimer he moves to Montagnola near Lugano
1960		Awarded honorary citizenship of the City of Frankfurt am Main
1969		Death of Rosa Riekher
1970		Publication of "Traditionelle und kritische Theorie"
1971		Awarded the Lessing Prize of the city of Hamburg
1973		Max Horkheimer dies in Nürnberg on 7th July

Kaynak: http://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/archive/horkheimer_vita_en.html