Editing Gabriel Marcel (section)

==Early life and education==
Marcel was born on 7 December 1889 in [[Paris]], France. His mother, Laure Meyer, who was [[Jewish]], died when he was young, and he was brought up by his aunt and father, [[Henry Marcel]].  When he was eight, he moved for a year where his father was [[envoy (title)|minister plenipotentiary]].<ref name="citadel" />

Marcel completed his DES thesis{{efn|The title of his 1910 thesis was ''Coleridge et Schelling'' (''[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]] and [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling|Schelling]]''). It was published in 1971 (see Jeanne Parain-Vial, ''Gabriel Marcel: un veilleur et un éveilleur'', L'Âge d'Homme, 1989, p. 12).}} (''{{Interlanguage link|diplôme d'études supérieures|fr}}'', roughly equivalent to an [[M.A.|MA]] thesis) and obtained the ''[[agrégation]]'' in philosophy from the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] in 1910, at the unusually young age of 20.  During the First World War he worked as head of the Information Service, organized by the [[Red Cross]] to convey news of injured soldiers to their families.<ref name="citadel" /> He taught in secondary schools, was a drama critic for various literary journals, and worked as an editor for [[Plon (publisher)|Plon]], the major French [[Catholic]] publisher.<ref name="stanford">[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcel/ Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel], ''[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]'</ref>

Marcel was the son of an [[agnostic]],<ref name="citadel">{{cite book | title=The Philosophy of Existentialism | publisher=Citadel Press | author=Marcel, Gabriel | year=1947 | location=Paris | isbn=0-8065-0901-5 | others=[[Manya Harari]] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/philosophyofexis0000marc }}</ref> and was himself not a member of any organized religion until his conversion to Catholicism in 1929. Marcel was opposed to [[anti-Semitism]] and supported reaching out to non-Catholics.

He died on 8 October 1973 in Paris.