Heidegger was absent from his mentor’s funeral on grounds of illness

Evidence

Heidegger missing funeral: in a 1985 interview, Max Müller recalled that Heidegger ‘was missing from Husserl’s funeral, like most colleagues of his faculty, because he was ill’. Max Müller, ‘Martin Heidegger: a philosopher and politics: a conversation’, in Neske & Kettering (eds), Martin Heidegger and National Socialism, 175–95, this 187. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1340

Categorization

• XREF: Ties directly to the narrative of Husserl’s death and Heidegger’s ambiguous relationship with his mentor and with Nazism as told in the main body of the book.