Kurt Rudolf Fischer
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Kurt Rudolf Fischer (born February 26, 1922 in Vienna),[1] is a Jewish-Austrian philosopher who emigrated to Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1938 and to Shanghai in 1940.
He became Chinese boxing champion and started studying Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley after World War II where he made friends with Paul Feyerabend. From 1967 to 1980 he was Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Millersville, Pennsylvania), since 1979 he has been honorary professor at the University of Vienna.
Fischer was awarded the Gold Medal for Services to the City of Vienna in 2000 and in 2001 he also received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class[2]
Publications
- Contemporary European Philosophers, Berkeley, 2. Aufl. 1968, 3. Aufl. 1972
- Philosophie aus Wien, Wien-Salzburg 1991
- Österreichische Philosophie von Brentano bis Wittgenstein. Ein Lesebuch. UTB 2086, Wien 1999
References
- ↑ Doelken, Theodor; Karl Strute (1983). Who's who in Austria. Who's Who the International Red Series Verlag. p. 1978. ISBN 3921220440.
- ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1391. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
External links
- Kurt Rudolf Fischer in the German National Library catalogue
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