Hans Jürgen Wendel

Hans Jürgen Wendel (born January 16, 1953 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German philosopher and professor at the University of Rostock .

Wendel studied social sciences and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Mannheim from 1977 to 1982, and from 1982 to 1985 as a doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . From 1985 to 1990 he was a research assistant in Mannheim. In 1986 he received his doctorate and in 1989 his habilitation in Mannheim. From 1990 to 1992 teaching activities at the University of Kiel and the Humboldt University in Berlin followed . From 1992 to 2018 he was professor of philosophy (focus on formal philosophy) at the University of Rostock, and between 2002 and 2006 he was also rector there .

Since 1998 he has been state chairman of the German University Association and since 1998 president of the Society for New Phenomenology , co-editor of LOGOS (journal for systematic philosophy) and managing editor of the critical edition of Moritz Schlick's writings . Since 2001 he has been a member of the Friedrich and Irmgard Harms Foundation . In 2006 he received honorary doctorates from the University of Cluj (Romania) and the University of Oradea (Romania). In 2012 he received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art First Class for the Moritz Schlick Project.

Works (selection)

• Name, meaning, necessity. 1986
• Modern relativism. 1990
• The limits of naturalism. 1997
• together with Volker Gadenne (ed.): Rationality and Criticism. 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Jürgen Wendel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Hans-Jürgen Wendel in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Moritz Schlick Research Center ( Memento from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )