Hannah Arendt was a 20th century German-Jewish political philosopher who wrote extensively on totalitarianism and human rights. She fled Nazi Germany and spent 18 years in Paris before immigrating to the United States in 1941. Arendt published several influential works including The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem. She became the first woman to be a full professor of politics at Princeton University and made important contributions to political theory and education.