Eugene Kamenka

Eugene Kamenka (4 March 1928 19 January 1994) was born in Cologne in 1928 and taken to Australia in 1937. He was educated at the Sydney Technical High School, and after interrupting his studies went to Jerusalem where he married his first wife Miriam mizrachi .with her encouragement he returned to Sydney university to complete his degree and begin work on his later published thesis | 'The Ethical Foundations of [[Marxism]']for the Australian national university, publ 1962. Professor John Anderson of Sydney University was a key influence in his early career. Kamenka lectured in philosophy at the University of Singapore where he met his second wife and lectured and researched in Europe, North America and most countries in Asia; he was a Professor and the Head of the History of Ideas Unit at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University, and lived in Canberra.

He died in Canberra.

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