Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer (1874 - 1945) was a german philosopher. He became a doctor of philosophy at University of Marburg in 1899 where he studied for Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp, thus being widely considered a neo-Kantian. As a Jew, he had no easy academic career. After long years as Privatdozent, he was appointed to a chair of philosophy in Hamburg in 1919, where he lectured until 1933, forced to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power.
He found refuge as a lecturer in Oxford, 1933-1935, was then professor at Gothenburg University 1935-1941, guest professor at Yale University, New Haven 1941-1943 and finally lived in New York lecturing at Columbia University from 1943 to 1945. As he had been naturalized in Sweden, he died on April 13, 1945 on Columbia campus a Swedish citizen of german-jewish decent.
Works (selection):
- Substance and Fuction (1910), English translation 1923
- Kant's Life and Thought (1918), English translation 1981
- Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923-29), English translation 1953-1957
- Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1932), English translation 1951
- The Logic of the Humanities (1942), English translation 1961
- An Essay on Man (originally written and published in English) (1944)
- The Myth of the State (originally written and published in English) (posthumous) (1946)