Ernst Tugendhat | |
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Born | Brno, Czechoslovakia | 8 March 1930
Died | 13 March 2023 Freiburg, Germany | (aged 93)
Education | |
Awards | Meister Eckhart Prize |
Institutions | |
Thesis | The concept of truth in Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger (1966) |
Main interests | Philosophy of language |
Ernst Tugendhat (8 March 1930 – 13 March 2023) was a Czechoslovak-born German philosopher. He was a scion of the wealthy and influential Jewish Tugendhat family. They lived in Venezuela during the Nazi regime, and he studied first in Stanford University, then in Freiburg. He taught internationally in Europa and South America, with a focus on language analysis.[1]