Walter Ehrlich (16 May 1896 in

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Biography

Walter Ehrlich was born on 16 May 1896 as the son of the merchant, Jakob Ehrlich, and his wife, Nina Ehrlich, née Flatow, in

. He attended the ''Königlich Französisches Gymnasium'' (Royal French Gymnasium) in Berlin until Easter of 1914. After that, he studied

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and

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at the

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. In 1915 he joined the military and participated in the eastern campaign until October 1915. During this time, he contracted a prolonged illness, which continued until the end of the summer of 1917. In October 1917 he enrolled in the

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to study

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and broke off his studies at the end of 1918. In Berlin, Ehrlich attended lectures by professors

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, Friedrich Julius Schmidt and

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. After February 1919, he began philosophical and literary studies as a regular student at the

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under

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(Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger),

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and Leonardo Olschki (1885-1961).

(1867-1933), a philosopher who taught at the University of Heidelberg from 1918 to 1922, stimulated and encouraged Ehrlich with his doctoral dissertation, which was titled ''Der Freiheitsbegriff bei

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und

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'' (1920) (The Concept of Freedom in Kant and Schopenhauer).

Works by Walter Ehrlich

* Der Freiheitsbegriff bei Kant und Schopenhauer. (1920) (88 pages) (Doctoral dissertation, philosophical faculty of the University of Heidelberg - Heinrich Maier, advisor) * Kant und Husserl. Kritik der transzendentalen und der phänomenologischen Methode. Halle Saale 1923. X, 166 pages. * Metaphysik im erkenntniskritischen Grundriss. Philosophische Gespräche. Halle Saale 1924. 136 pages. * Das unpersonale Erlebnis. Einführung in eine neue Erkenntnislehre. Halle Saale 1927. 264 pages. * Stufen der Personalität. Grundlegung einer Metaphysik des Menschen. Halle Saale 1930. 166 pages. * Intentionalität und Sinn. Halle Saale 1934. 48 pages. * Grundzüge der Rechtsmetaphysik. Ein Vortrag. Halle Saale 1935. 52 pages. * Der Sinn in der Geschichte. Einleitung in die Transzendentalgeschichte. Zurich (Switzerland) 1935. 42 pages. * Das Verstehen. Zurich (Switzerland) 1939. 174 pages. * Ontologie des Bewusstseins. Zurich (Switzerland) 1940. VIII, 320 pages. * Der Mensch und die numinosen Regionen. Chur (Switzerland) 1943. 180 pages. * Lehre vom Karman. Chur (Switzerland) 1945. 176 pages. * Ästhetik. Chur (Switzerland) 1947. 100 pages. * Soziologie. Chur (Switzerland) 1949. 100 pages. * Geistesgeschichte. Tübingen 1952. 88 pages. * Metaphysik. Tübingen 1955. 128 pages. * Ethik. Tübingen 1956. 140 pages. * Philosophische Anthropologie. Tübingen 1957. 124 pages. * Einführung in die Staatsphilosophie. Tübingen 1958. 128 pages. * Hauptprobleme der Wertphilosophie. Verlag Max Niemeyer. Tübingen 1959. 126 pages. * Grundlinien einer Naturphilosophie. Tübingen 1960. 112 pages. * Kulturgeschichtliche Autobiographie. Tübingen 1961. 112 pages. * Aphorismen zur Philosophie der Kunst. Tübingen 1962. 112 pages. * Kulturphilosophie. Tübingen 1964. 120 pages. * Philosophie der Geschichte der Philosophie. Tübingen 1965. 116 pages. * System der Philosophie. Tübingen 1966. 112 pages. * Selbsterziehung und Pädagogik. Tübingen 1969. 112 pages.

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(in German) 1896 births 1968 deaths German male writers 20th-century German philosophers {{Germany-philosopher-stub