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Richard Hönigswald (18 July 1875 in Magyar-Óvár in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, (the present Mosonmagyaróvár in Hungary) – 11 June 1947 in New Haven, Connecticut) was a well-known philosopher belonging to the wider circle of Neo-Kantianism.

Hönigswald studied medicine and philosophy under Alois Riehl and Alexius von Meinong and from 1916 was professor of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy in Breslau (now Wrocław). There he supervised Norbert Elias's doctorate up to its conclusion in 1924. From 1930 he was a professor at Munich. The emphasis of his work lay on the theory of cognition from the point of view of validation and the philosophy of language. Beyond that, Hönigswald tried to develop a method of teaching that would be applicable to the natural sciences and the humanities equally. He also dealt with questions of the psychology of thought and of pedagogy.

In 1933, as a Jew, he was compulsorily retired. At the time of the Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) in 1938, he spent three weeks in Dachau concentration camp. In 1939 he emigrated with his wife and daughter by way of Switzerland to the United States.

References

(in German):

• Schmied-Kowarzik, Wolfdietrich (ed.), Erkennen - Monas - Sprache. Internationales Richard-Hönigswald-Symposion Kassel 1995 (Würzburg 1997).
• Zeidler, Kurt Walter, Kritische Dialektik und Transzendentalontologie. Der Ausgang des Neukantianismus und die post-neukantianische Systematik R. Hönigswalds, W. Cramers, B. Bauchs, H. Wagners, R. Reinigers und E. Heintels (Bonn 1995).

External links

• Richard Hönigswald in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Archiv für Systematische Philosophie, incl list of works

This article is translated from that on the German Wikipedia