Rudolf W. Meyer

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Rudolf Walter Meyer (born April 25, 1915 in Baden , † January 4, 1989 in Certenago ) was a Swiss philosopher .

Life

Meyer, son of the businessman Julius Albert Meyer, attended the Realgymnasium in Zurich . Until 1938 he studied Romance studies and philosophy at the Paris Sorbonne . After receiving his doctorate in 1941, he completed his habilitation in 1946 at the University of Zurich with a work on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . He then worked for the Swiss Trade and Industry Association . In 1956 he was appointed titular professor, then in 1958 as associate professor and in 1969 finally as full professor at the University of Zurich.

Meyer was elected to the board of the International Hegel Society in 1982 together with Heinz Kimmerle and Wolfgang Lefèvre and confirmed in 1988. In this capacity he edited the Hegel yearbook - also together with Kimmerle and Lefèvre . Meyer also edited the complete works of the German philosopher Joachim Jungius (1587–1657). On January 4, 1989, the resident of Basel died in Certenago, Italy.

Fonts

  • The Protest of Conscience in Philosophy (1941)
  • Leibniz and the European regulatory crisis. Hamburg, Hansischer Gildenverlag, 1948.
  • The Time Problem in the 20th Century (1964)

as editor:

  • The problem of progress - today . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1969.
  • Joachim Jungius : Joachimi Jungii Logica Hamburgensis. (Edidit Rudolf W. Meyer./ Logicae Hamburgensis Additamenta. Cum annotationibus edidit Wilhem Risse). 2 volumes. Hamburg, JJAugustin, MCMLVII / Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 1977.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Rudolf W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Rudolf Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH to bathe
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1989
Place of death Certenago