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INGRID STADLER Obituary

STADLER, Ingrid (Hess) Passed away peacefully on March 18th at the age of 85 in Cambridge, MA. She was born in Vienna and came to this country at age 10. Educated at Vassar, Harvard and Oxford, she became an academic specializing in the work of Immanuel Kant and the field of aesthetics. As a professor of philosophy at Wellesley for 41 years, Ingrid was renowned for the excellence of her teaching which inspired many students. Aesthetics wasn't just her expertise. She and her cherished husband, Steven Stadler, lived surrounded by beauty and traveled widely to hear and see even more. Ingrid is survived by her husband and will be missed by many friends and old students. There will be a memorial service sometime in May or June at Wellesley College.

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Published by Boston Globe from Mar. 18 to Mar. 21, 2016.

Memories and Condolences
for INGRID STADLER

16 Entries

Ingrid

May 21, 2024

She sat on albert einsteins lap

Susan Laracy

March 12, 2021

I received a memory from Legacy.com and couldn’t let the opportunity pass without honoring once again the wonderful Ingrid Stadler. In 2011 as a landscape architecture student at Boston Architectural College I attended a class called “Civilization and Ideas” taught by Professor Stadler and Amy Van Lauwe. I quickly learned what an absolute privilege it was to be in Ingrid’s class. Her brilliant mind and beautiful heart were as expansive as her intellect, eloquence, academic achievements, humor and inimitable way of engaging her students in substantive and personally revelatory discussions. Because she was so very special, well before the semester ended I made certain to let her know how deeply and meaningfully she inspired, influenced, and enriched my life, and what an honor it was to have had the chance to know her.

I was fortunate to find a few copies of her book “Contemporary Art and Its Philosophical Problems” and hope to one day track down her other book “A Universe in a Box: The Symbolic Composition of the Japanese Garden” (co-authored with Professor Kyogo Chiku of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan, and published by the MIT Press).

I will remember Professor Stadler always with reverence and am forever grateful to the BAC for bringing her into my life.

Susan Karim

January 24, 2017

Ingrid Stadler was the most inspiring teacher I have ever known. It was an absolute privilege to have had the opportunity to be her student, and her wisdom and intellect will inspire me for the remainder of my life. Kind thanks and blessings to you, Professor.

May 13, 2016

It is a true testament of a good teacher when after decades, you still remember inspiring and intriguing things they taught you in your youth. I will never forget her stories about teaching Sylvia Plath, and also her love for existentialism and great poetry. Condolences to her husband. Rest peacefully, Mrs. Stadler.

Anonymous

Lisa Horowitz

April 22, 2016

Ingrid was a wonderful teacher. I enjoyed the seminar I took with her so much. She pushed us to think and explore and synthesize new ideas. She was the epitome of a Wellesley professor. My condolences to Steven and to all who knew her.

Kyra Reppen

April 22, 2016

I was also lucky enough to take a class with Professor Stadler at Wellesley. She had this way of making you feel like you were so much smarter and creative than you could ever imagine yourself aspiring to be. I'm sure I took on challenges I never would have done without the Professor's impact. I see this elegant radiating professor walking across the quad to Founders...

MaryScott Hagle

April 20, 2016

Ingrid was the first professor I felt connected to at Wellesley. She helped transform me from a shy first-year into an emboldened philosophy major senior used to being taken seriously. I loved our long afternoon talks in her office in Founders, riding in that beautiful car, eating cheese and crackers in her Cambridge apartment, and the way she always replied immediately to any correspondence, even a mass-produced family holiday card. Ingrid, you were one of a kind.
Rest in peace, fierce one!

L. Aviva Diamond

April 20, 2016

I just today heard of Ingrid's death, and even though the news brings sadness, I'm smiling at the memories of this super-smart, honest, funny, quirky, sophisticated, generous marvel of a human being who adored Steven, art, Siamese cats, harpsichords, music, poetry, students, design, food, and a million things I don't know about. I met Ingrid in the 70's at Wellesley; she heard about an interdisciplinary course I was trying to create, and she agreed to teach it. That began a lifelong friendship - mostly letters and phone calls, but also dinners whenever we were in the same city. I still remember her wearing a light-colored suede outfit on graduation day and sitting on the damp grass to talk with students. We were terrified that our fashion icon (the Porsche!!! the clothes!!!) would walk away with grass stains, but she thought we were nuts; she never gave such things a thought. Over the decades, Ingrid has been a loyal friend and an inspiration, running around the world with Steven, passionately supporting everything and everyone she believed in, always teaching and enjoying. She was a true original. I loved her, and I will miss her. Deepest condolences, Steven...

Gabrielle Davis Ginsberg

April 20, 2016

I am one of the lucky ones - to have known and studied with Professor Stadler at Wellesley College in the early 1980s. She was wonderful and inspiring and elegant. When Professor "taught" philosophy, it was thrilling. After Wellesley, I too, studied at Oxford and her words and teachings were never eclipsed - only enhanced - by my studies at Oxford. RIP Professor. You will be missed by so many, but never forgotten.

Evelyn C. White

April 19, 2016

I took a philosophy class from Professor Stadler during my sojourn at Wellesley in the 1970s. She was an excellent teacher. And then there was the day that she gave me a ride in her ultra-cool PORSCHE. The thrill of a lifetime for a young black woman from the Midwest. If I ever own a Porsche (fat chance!) will name it Ingrid.

Anne Hunter

April 18, 2016

I'm stunned to have just heard of Ingrid's death. I thought we'd have dinner again soon, as we have so often.

March 22, 2016

She was generous to younger faculty too. Always elegant and worldly, it was a pleasure to know her. Susan Reverby

LEE WARREN

March 22, 2016

I am so sorry to hear of the death of Ingrid Stadler. She was my teacher at Wellesley in the late 50s and I always loved her classes. When I got my PhD and began to teach, she was my model -- and still is. She always made the material real and relevant and worth considering. I have tried to do that myself.

Pamela

March 22, 2016

Gone and will not be forgotten, God's richest blessings and comfort to family and friends, as Ingrid rest in peace.

March 19, 2016

And Ingrid was a lover of poetry, too, which she read with pleasure and understanding, as I know from our friendship. I was encouraged by her bravery, intellectual and physical, in age.
Helen Vendler

Alice Griffin

March 18, 2016

Rest in peace, Ingrid.

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