Richard Hönigswald was a well-known philosopher belonging to the wider circle of Neo-Kantianism

Neo-Kantianism

Neo-Kantianism refers broadly to a revived type of philosophy along the lines of that laid down by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, or more specifically by Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy in his work The World as Will and Representation , as well as by other post-Kantian...

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Hönigswald studied medicine

Medicine

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 and philosophy

Philosophy

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 under Alois Riehl

Alois Riehl

The philosopher Alois Adolf Riehl was born in Bozen in Austria .The brother of Josef Riehl, he was a Neo-Kantian and worked as a professor at Graz, then Freiburg and finally in Berlin, where he commissioned Mies van der Rohe to design his house in Neubabelsberg.For Riehl, philosophy was not the...

 and Alexius von Meinong and from 1916 was professor of philosophy, psychology

Psychology

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 and pedagogy

Pedagogy

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 in Breslau (now Wrocław). There he supervised Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias

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's doctorate up to its conclusion in 1924. From 1930 he was a professor at Munich

Munich

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. The emphasis of his work lay on the theory of cognition from the point of view of validation and the philosophy of language. Beyond that, Hönigswald tried to develop a method of teaching that would be applicable to the natural sciences and the humanities equally. He also dealt with questions of the psychology of thought and of pedagogy.

In 1933, as a Jew, he was compulsorily retired. At the time of the Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, and also Reichskristallnacht, Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938.Jewish homes were ransacked, as were shops, towns and...

 (The Night of Broken Glass) in 1938, he spent three weeks in Dachau concentration camp. In 1939 he emigrated with his wife and daughter by way of Switzerland

Switzerland

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 to the United States

United States

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External links

• Archiv für Systematische Philosophie, incl list of works

This article is translated from that on the German Wikipedia