Paul Seligman

Paul Seligman was a teacher and scholar born in 1903 in Bingen am Rhein, Germany.

During the Nazi rise to power, he was involved in the creation of at least three documentary films alongside Ella Bergmann-Michel as a producer, creating an essay pleading that film should remain independent and free for one of the films. After this initial collaboration was eventually made to stop, he made a film of his own called ''Frühjahr 1933'' (Spring 1933)''.''

He left Germany in 1936 pushed by Nazi occupation, moving to the United Kingdom, where he eventually enrolled in Birkbeck, University of London, to study philosophy, finishing his Ph. D. degree in 1956. In 1963 he moved to Waterloo, Ontario, becoming a teacher in philosophy and was awarded with the title of Distinguished Professors Emeriti on 22nd May 1975. Soon after he retired at the age of 71.

After a battle with disease, Paul Seligman passed away in University Hospital (London, Ontario) the 2nd of March 1985, receiving an In Memoriam by the University of Cambridge. Soon after, the University of Waterloo begun offering a scholarship to his name.

Throughout his last days of life, he was part of the C. G. Jung foundation in the Toronto Branch, becoming the first president of said foundation, and actively gave seminars to University of Waterloo students regarding Jungian thought and psychology.

In 2019, his early biography was uncovered. The German Historical Museum, alongside an exhibition of Ella Bergmann-Michel Die Frau mit der Kinamo (The Woman with the Kinamo), showed his unpublished film and an interview from 1976.

His most important works include "The Apeiron of Anaximander: A Study in the Origin and Function of Metaphysical Ideas", and "Being and Not-Being: An introduction to Plato's Sophist". There is also a mention of a third work, but it was never published. Provided by Wikipedia