Alice von Hildebrand


Alice M. von Hildebrand, DCSG is a Catholic philosopher, theologian, lecturer, author, and former professor; she is also the second wife of Dietrich von Hildebrand.

Early life

She was born Alice Jourdin on March 11, 1923, in Brussels, Belgium.

Career

She moved to the United States in 1940 and began teaching at Hunter College in New York City in 1947.
Von Hildebrand retired in 1984. She lives in the United States and is a lecturer and author. She has made more than 80 appearances on EWTN television programming. In 2004, she launched the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project with some of her husband's former students. Her works include The Soul of a Lion: The Life of Dietrich von Hildebrand, a biography of her husband, and her autobiography, Memoirs of a Happy Failure, which recounts her escape from Nazi Europe and her teaching career at Hunter College.

Views

Von Hildebrand has criticized what she considers to be the advance of relativism and modernism in the Catholic Church, particularly within its institutions of Catholic higher education and its Catholic schools.

Personal life

In 1959, she married philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand, having met him at Fordham University in New York City, where she was a student and he was a professor. They remained married until his death.
Von Hildebrand is a Dame Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, a papal knighthood.