I muri i tona habilitation i reira i 1928 whakaako ia ariā tōrangapū me te sociology. I roto i Austria Voegelin tīmata hoa roa ki Alfred Schütz me ki F. A. Hayek. Hei hua o te Anschluss o Austria ki Germany i 1938, Voegelin i maka i tona mahi. narrowly te karo i te hopukina e te Gestapo, a muri i te noho poto i roto i Switzerland, ka tae ia i roto i te United States. whakaako ia i ngā whare wānanga rerekē i mua i te whakauru o Louisiana State University o te Tari o te Kawanatanga i roto i te tau 1942. noho Voegelin i roto i Baton Rouge i 1958 ka whakaae ia he tuku i te Munich o Ludwig-Mailians-University ki te whakakapi i te tumuaki o Max Weber i roto i te pūtaiao tōrangapū, a ka hoki mai ia ki konei i runga i tona mate i runga i January 19, 1985, i muri i te whakapumautia ia i tona mahi i roto i te Whare Wānanga o Amerika i Munich, ka hoki ia ki te hei mema o Henry Weber's Hohe Institute for War and Peace.
Ko te tau 1920