Rudolph H. Weingartner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rudolph H. Weingartner (born Rudolph Herbert Weingartner February 12, 1927 in Heidelberg ) is an American philosopher of German origin.

Life

Rudolph Herbert Weingärtner's father Jacob Weingärtner was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp after the November pogroms in 1938 . The family managed to flee to the USA in 1939, along with his brother, who later became the economist Hans Martin Weingartner . Weingartner received US citizenship in 1944. In 1952 he married Fannia Goldberg-Rudlowski from Danzig and they have two children.

Weingartner joined the US Navy in 1944. From 1947 he studied philosophy at Columbia University , where he was awarded a Ph.D. PhD . He then taught there and later at San Francisco State University . Eventually he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh . In 1965 he was a Guggenheim scholar .

Weingartner made the philosophical and sociological work of Georg Simmel known in the USA through his publications .

Fonts (selection)

The Unity of the Platonic Dialogue 1973
  • Experience and culture. The philosophy of Georg Simmel (1962)
  • The Unity of the Platonic Dialogue: The Cratylus, the Protagoras, the Parmenides (1973)
  • The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration (1999)
  • Mostly About Me: A Path Through Different Worlds (2003)
  • A Sixty-Year Ride through the World of Education (2007)

literature

  • Weingartner, Rudolph Herbert , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1224

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Weingartner, Rudolph H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weingartner, Rudolph Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg