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Life Born in Peine near Hanover, Otto attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen , from where he received both his doctorate (with a Dissertation on Luther ) and habilitation on Kant . In 1906, he became extraordinary professor (see Professor ), and in 1910 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University Of Giessen . In 1915 , he became ordinary professor at the University Of Breslau , and in 1917, at the University Of Marburg 's Divinity School, then one of the most famous Protestant Seminaries in the world. Although he received several other calls, he remained in Marburg for the rest of his life. He retired in 1929 and died eight years later, probably as a consequence from a Malaria Infection he had caught on one of his many expeditions. He is buried in Marburg cemetery. ''The Holy'' Otto's most famous work, and 1990 but has made a strong comeback since then, after its Phenomenological aspects have become more apparent. Influence It is more difficult to say who, in theology and philosophy of religion in the first half of the 20th century, was not influenced by Otto than who was. German-American theologian Paul Tillich acknowledged Otto's influence on him, as did Romanian-American Anthropologist Mircea Eliade . Eliade used the concepts from ''The Idea of the Holy'' as the starting point for his own 1957 book, ''The Sacred and the Profane''. Others to acknowledge Otto were, for instance, Martin Heidegger , Leo Strauss , Hans-Georg Gadamer (critical in his youth, respectful in his old age), Max Scheler , Ernst Jünger , and Hans Jonas . Books available in English
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Other Translations ''The Idea of the Holy'' has been translated into Persian by Prof. Homayoun Hemmati under title of ''Mafhoome Amre Ghodsi'', Tehran , 2001. External links |