485) Georges Politzer

Georges Politzer (1903 – 1942). French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian Jewish origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" (philosophe roux). He was a native of Oradea, a city in present-day Romania.

- "Castor described Politzer in her memoirs: '... I liked even more his gestures, his oice, his freckles, and that flaming red hair which Sartre borrowed for his Antoine Roquentin.'" https://books.google.it/books…

- "... was a tall and awkward young man with a shock of red hair whose waves augured an unprecedented ardor for philosophical battle." https://books.google.it/books…