Who was born first, Martin Heidegger or Lydia Davis?
Martin Heidegger
Title: Martin Heidegger
Passage: Martin Heidegger ( ; ] ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics.  According to the "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy", he is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century".  Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy" cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification".
Title: Lydia Davis
Passage: Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American writer noted for literary works of extreme brevity (commonly called "flash fiction").  Davis is also a short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including "Swann’s Way" by Marcel Proust and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert.
Title: Martin Heidegger and Nazism
Passage: Philosopher Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) on May 1, 1933, ten days after being elected Rector of the University of Freiburg.  A year later, in April 1934, he resigned the Rectorship and stopped taking part in Nazi Party meetings, but remained a member of the Nazi Party until its dismantling at the end of World War II.  The denazification hearings immediately after World War II led to Heidegger's dismissal from Freiburg, banning him from teaching.  In 1949, after several years of investigation, the French military finally classified Heidegger as a "Mitläufer" or "Nazi follower".  The teaching ban was lifted in 1951 and Heidegger was granted "emeritus" status in 1953, but he was never allowed to resume his philosophy chair.
Martin Heidegger Lydia Davis