10 Facts About Ernst Tugendhat

Ernst Tugendhat was a Czechoslovak-born German philosopher.

Ernst Tugendhat was a scion of the wealthy and influential Jewish Tugendhat family.

Ernst Tugendhat taught internationally in Europa and South America, with a focus on language analysis.

Ernst Tugendhat studied classics at Stanford University from 1944 to 1949, and went on to do graduate work in philosophy and classics at the University of Freiburg.

Ernst Tugendhat achieved his doctorate there with a thesis on Aristotle in 1956.

Ernst Tugendhat was professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1966 to 1975.

Ernst Tugendhat retired in 1992, but was a visiting professor in philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, a researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and visiting professor at Charles University in Prague.

Ernst Tugendhat died in Freiburg on 12 March 2023 at age 93.

Ernst Tugendhat became a honorary professor of the Tubingen University in 1999, and in 2002 a fellow of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche.

Ernst Tugendhat received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2005, and from the University of Zurich in 2009.