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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was born 1905. He studied both in Germany and Paris, then taught philosophy during the 1930s at La Havre and Paris. He became interested in philosophy while 'mountaineering' (I am guessing that is something like hiking) in Canada when he was introduced to Henri Bergson's Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. In 1929 he met Simone de Beauvior another scholar who he would have a lifelong companionship with. Together they discussed existentialist ideas which led to his work Existentialism is Humanism in 1946.

In 1939 Sartre was drafted into the army as a meteorologist. He was captured by German troops in 1940 and spend 9 months as a prisoner of war. he was released in 1941 and resumed a teaching position.

He wrote his philosophical ideas in forms of plays such as No Exit, Being and Nothingness, and The Flies because they were not censored by the Germans and were published many literary magazines.

When the war ended Sartre established Modern Times, a monthly literary and political review, and started writing full-time as well as continuing his political activism.

Sartre was very politically active. He called himself communist, but never actually joined the communist party. He took a dominate role in opposing the French rule in Algeria , exposing war crimes in a literary magazine. In the fifties Sartre went to Cuba to meet Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.