The Value of the Individual by Karl Joachim Weintraub

He was a renowned teacher of the University of the Chicago's core course in Western Civilization, which is still taught by his wife Katy O'Brien Weintraub. Weintraub noted that 18th- and 19th-century autobiographical writers often used a narrative of ' development' in their stories, as distinct from earlier autobiographies' use of a narrative of 'unfolding'. Weintraub's scholarship focused on culture, autobiography, and the history of the self he was the author of Visions Of Culture (1966) and The Value Of The Individual: Self and Circumstance in Autobiography (1978). He received his post-secondary education at the University of Chicago, attaining a B.A. He and his sister Tatjana Wood emigrated to the United States in 1948. During this time, Weintraub attended the Quaker Eerde School. Weintraub was born in Germany to parents of German and Russian- Jewish ancestry in reaction to the increasing Nazi discrimination against Jews, they fled to the Netherlands in 1935, where they were forced into hiding during the Nazi occupation. He was a strong proponent of liberal education and wrote and spoke extensively on its value. Karl Joachim 'Jock' Weintraub (December 31, 1924, Darmstadt, Germany – March 25, 2004, Chicago, Ill.) was a longtime professor of history at the University of Chicago, having taught there since 1954.

The Value of the Individual by Karl Joachim Weintraub