Ernst Tugendhat

Ernst Tugendhat
Born(1930-03-08)8 March 1930
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Died13 March 2023(2023-03-13) (aged 93)
Freiburg, Germany
AwardsMeister Eckhart Prize
Education
Education
ThesisThe concept of truth in Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger (1966)
Philosophical work
Institutions
Main interestsPhilosophy of language

Ernst Tugendhat (8 March 1930 – 13 March 2023) was a Czechoslovak-born German philosopher. He was a scion of the wealthy and influential Jewish Tugendhat family. They lived in Venezuela during the Nazi regime, and he studied first in Stanford University, then in Freiburg. He taught internationally in Europa and South America, with a focus on language analysis.