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Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher, university teacher, and art historian born in Wrocław on May 28, 1874. He was educated at the University of Marburg and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His professional career included positions at the University of Oxford, All Souls College, University of Hamburg, and Yale University. He worked in Marburg, Berlin, Hamburg, and Oxford. Cassirer was associated with the Marburg School and held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and Sweden.
He died in New York City on April 13, 1945, from natural causes. Cassirer was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. His notable works include *Zur Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie*, *Psychologie du langage*, *Antropologia filosofica*, *Teoriia otnositelʹnosti Einshteina*, and *人間*. He wrote in German and had Leo Strauss as a doctoral student. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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- Born
- july 28, 1874
- Died
- April 131945
- Works
- 163
Top works
- Zur Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie
- Psychologie du langage
- Antropologia filosofica
- Teoriia otnositelʹnosti Einshteina
- 人間
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernst
- Family name
- Cassirer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany
- Place of birth
- Wrocław
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- art historian
- Educated at
- University of Marburg
- Employer
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Natorp
- Movement
- Marburg School
- Image
- ErnstCassirer.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- Ernst Cassirer
- date of birth
- 1874-07-28
- date of death
- 1945-04-13
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Ernst Cassirer
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- writing language
- German
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- P8168
- Monroe
- start of work period
- 1886-01-01
- end of work period
- 1941-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Ernst Alfred Cassirer (/kɑːˈsɪərər, kəˈ-/ kah-SEER-ər, kə-; German: [ˈɛʁnst kaˈsiːʁɐ]; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.
After Cohen's death in 1918, Cassirer developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand the "logic and psychology of thought" into a more general "logic of the cultural sciences". Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism. His most famous work is the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929).
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