Klaus Mollenhauer Author

Klaus Mollenhauer was born the son of a prison teacher and a social worker in Berlin in 1928. Early in his professorial career, Mollenhauer worked to liberate and reintegrate youth forcibly confined in Jugendheime in the West. Deeply influenced by humanist philosophy while a student at Göttingen, Germany, Mollenhauer also taught there from 1972 until his retirement in 1996, and he lived there until his death in 1998.

Norm Friesen studied German at the University of Winnipeg and Johns Hopkins University before completing his PhD in Education at the University of Alberta, Canada. Friesen has worked as a Canada Research Chair at Thompson Rivers University (in British Columbia, Canada), and is currently Associate Professor in the College of Education at Boise State University, USA.