after a short illness. He had just celebrated his 100th birthday
in grand style with his closest friends and family and a
trip to NYC to visit his younger sister who turned 97 a few
days earlier. Born October 16, 1923 in Manhattan, he quickly
discovered a love of reading which grew into a library of over
7000 books. Robert attended the University of Wisconsin in
1943, and soon enlisted in the army with WWII well underway.
After training in Southhampton, UK, he would join the 84th
Infantry Division, landing on the shores of France as an army
private at the young age of 21, in 1944, five months after
D-Day. He moved through France into Holland, Belgium and
Germany, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge in Marche, Belgium.
A mortar shell would end his tour during the invasion of
Germany in the town of Waldneil, and he would receive the
purple heart.
Following the war, he traveled to Paris and studied at the
Sorbonne. While in Paris, he worked for MGM and then the
Marshall Plan, where he met the love of his life, Marianne
Heineberg, a German refugee, who after her teenage years
in London, was also entranced with visiting Paris. They would
marry in 1952 in Paris and move to NYC to start their new life
together, finding their first apartment at 10 Downing Street,
the same address as the Prime Minister of England. Presenting
a Masters thesis at the University of Chicago in 1954, and
PHD in Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1961, he
would go on to teach at Ohio State and Kenyon College before
settling in Greensboro, NC. in 1961. Accepting a teaching
position at the Woman’s College of the University of NC. and
UNCG, he would teach for the next 30 years, retiring in1992.
With an expertise in Contemporary European Philosophy,
Aesthetics, Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, Robert
would become chairman of the Department for 10 years, and
President of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association
of Scholars.
He traveled the world with his wife, Marianne, of 60 years.
He was passionate about classical music and opera and was
frequently seen at the concerts and operas around Greensboro.
Robert had an endless energy for touring museums
around the world with a true love of history. He enjoyed politics
and could debate any topic with the best of them.
Services will be held Tuesday Dec 5th at 1 PM at Beth David
Synagogue. The burial will follow in the Greensboro Hebrew Cemetery.
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