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Armin Hajman Koller
b. 1878
A scholar of ideas and interpretation, this early 20th-century writer explored how environment shapes human life and thought. His work ranges from human geography to Jewish ethics, giving his books an unusually wide intellectual reach.
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About the author
Armin Hajman Koller was a writer and scholar born in 1878. His best-known original work, The Theory of Environment (1918), was presented as a doctoral dissertation and traces the history of the idea of “milieu,” asking how physical, social, and cultural surroundings influence people and societies.
His published work shows a broad range of interests. In addition to The Theory of Environment, he wrote The Abbé Du Bos--his advocacy of the theory of climate; precursor of Johann Gottfried Herder (1937), and he translated Simon Bernfeld’s The Foundations of Jewish Ethics, issued in 1929 as part of The Teachings of Judaism.
Some catalog and memorial records identify him as Armin Hajman Koller, born in 1878, and give his death year as 1942. Beyond those bibliographic traces, reliable biographical details appear to be scarce, so he is remembered mainly through the thoughtful, cross-disciplinary books he left behind.