Fritz Heinemann (8 February 1889 – 7 January 1970) was a German

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. Born in

Lüneburg Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German Bundesland (Germany), state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of another Hanseatic League, Hanseatic city, Hambur ...

, he taught at

Frankfurt University Goethe University Frankfurt () is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt ...

from 1930 to 1933. From 1939 to 1956, he taught at Manchester College,

Oxford Oxford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...

. In ''Neue Wege der Philosophie'' (1929) Heinemann heralded the rise of the Existential movement by coining the term ''Existenzphilosphie,'' translated as Existentialism.

Works

* ''Plotin. Forschungen über die plotinische Frage'', 1921 * ''Neue Wege der Philosophie'', 1929 * ''Odysseus oder die Zukunft der Philosophie'', 1939 * ''Existentialism and the Modern Predicament'', 1953 * ''Existenzphilosophie: lebendig oder tot?'', 1963

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Chronology of life
1889 births 1970 deaths 20th-century German philosophers Jewish philosophers Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom People from the Province of Hanover People from Lüneburg German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub