Fritz Heinemann (philosopher)

Fritz Heinrich Heinemann (8 February 1889 – 7 January 1970) was a German philosopher.

Biography

Heinemann was born in Lüneburg, into a respected Jewish family. After graduating from the Johanneum Lüneburg, he studied philosophy in Cambridge, Marburg, Munich and Berlin from 1907. In 1912, he received his doctorate with the thesis "The Structure of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Problem of Time". After the World War I, he taught mathematics at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium in Berlin. He taught at Frankfurt University from 1930 to 1933. After losing his teaching license in 1933, Heinemann went to Amersfoort and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Gabriel Marcel and Nikolai Berdyaev. His further path led him to England via Turkey in 1937. From 1939 to 1956, he taught as a professor at Manchester College, Oxford. From 1957 he returned to Frankfurt as a professor emeritus.

Heinemann is considered a critic of existential philosophy.

The city of Lüneburg honored him posthumously in 1974 with an exhibition and in 1985 by naming the reading room of the council library with his name.

Works

• Plotin (1921)
• Neue Wege der Philosophie. Geist, Leben, Existenz (1929)
• Odysseus oder die Zukunft der Philosophie (1939)
• Essay on the Foundations of Aesthetics: Analysis of Aesthetical Form (1939)
• David Hume (1940)
• Existenzphilosophie (1954)
• Jenseits des Existenzialismus (1957)
• Die Philosophie im 20. Jahrhundert (1959; editor)
• Existenzphilosophie, lebendig oder tot? (1951; 3rd, extended edition, 1963)

External links

• Cronology of life (German)