Kuno Fischer Prize
The Kuno Fischer Prize is a prize awarded by the Philosophical and Historical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg from the funds of the Kuno Fischer Prize Foundation for “outstanding works from the field of the history of philosophy that have appeared in German scientific literature are ", is awarded. The foundation was founded in 1904 by students and admirers of the Heidelberg philosopher and history of philosophy Kuno Fischer on the occasion of his 80th birthday with a start-up capital of 10,500 marks. The Grand Duke of Baden was one of the founders. It was to award the Kuno Fischer Prize of around 1,800 marks every five years. The award medal with a relief image of the scholar was created by the Karlsruhe artist Hermann Volz .
The prize is awarded at irregular intervals. In 2017 the price was 5100 euros. The award is determined by a jury from the Philosophical Seminar and the Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University.
Award winners
- 1914: Ernst Cassirer
- 1930: Hermann Glockner
- 1942: Ernst Krieck
- 1947: Wilhelm Nestle (for From Myth to Logos )
- 1974: Hans Blumenberg
- 1991: Werner Beierwaltes (especially for: Thinking of One , Klostermann 1985)
- 2001: Kurt Flasch (for the biography Nikolaus von Kues , Klostermann 1998)
- 2008: Dieter Henrich
- 2017: Eckart Förster for The 25 Years of Philosophy. A systematic reconstruction (Klostermann 2011). The study traced the 25 years in the history of German idealism between the postulation of the beginning of philosophy in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 and Hegel's proclamation of the end of philosophy in 1806.
literature
- Chronicle of the city of Heidelberg. Vol. 12, 1904 (1906). P. 69, digital
- Wolfgang Wieland : Laudation to Werner Beierwaltes. In: Heidelberger Jahrbücher 35, 1991, pp. 155–162, (excerpts online) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Faculty News - Philosophy - Johns Hopkins University. In: philosophy.jhu.edu. June 30, 2017, accessed August 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Marietta Fuhrmann-Koch: Kuno Fischer Prize for Study on the History of Philosophy , idw, November 14, 2017