What is Martin Buber?
{{Infobox philosopher|region=[[Western philosophy]]|era=[[Contemporary philosophy]]|image=Martin Buber portrait.jpg|name=Martin Buber|birth_date=February 8, 1878|birth_place=[[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]]|death_date={{Death date and age|mf=yes|1965|06|13|1878|02|08}}|death_place=[[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]]|school_tradition=[[Continental philosophers]]<br>[[Existentialism]]|main_interests={{hlist | [[Ontology]] | [[Philosophical anthropology]]}}|influences={{hlist | [[Immanuel Kant]] | [[Chuang Tzu]] | [[Søren Kierkegaard]] | [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] | [[Ludwig Feuerbach]] | [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] | [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] | [[Sigmund Freud]] | [[Jacob L. Moreno]] | [[Wilhelm Dilthey]] | [[Georg Simmel]] | [[Rudolf Bultmann]]}}|influenced={{hlist | [[Abraham Joshua Heschel]] | [[Walter Kaufmann]] | [[Gabriel Marcel]] | [[Franz Rosenzweig]] | [[Hans Urs von Balthasar]] | [[Fritz Perls]] | [[Laura Perls]] | [[John Berger]] | [[Emil Brunner]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Livingstone |first=E.&nbsp;A. |year=2013 |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic0000unse_t1s0 |edition=3rd |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic0000unse_t1s0/page/79 79] |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199659623.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-965962-3}}</ref>}}|notable_ideas=''[[I and Thou|Ich-Du]]'' and ''Ich-Es''}} '''Martin Buber''' ({{Lang-he-n|מרטין בּוּבֶּר&lrm;}}; {{Lang-de|Martin Buber}}; {{Lang-yi|מארטין בובער&lrm;}}; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an [[Austria|Austrian]] [[philosopher]], well-known for ''[[Philosophy of dialogue]]'', a form of [[existentialism]] on the distinction between the ''[[I and Thou]]'' and the ''I-It'' relationship.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Island of Freedom - Martin Buber|url=http://www.roberthsarkissian.com/iof/BUBER.HTM|website=Roberthsarkissian.com}}</ref> He was born in [[Vienna]] to a [[Jewish]] family but later abandoned Jewish customs to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, he