biography
| name: |
Jaspers, Karl (Theodor)
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pronunciation:
[yasperz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1969)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Oldenburg, NW Germany. He studied medicine at Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg, where he undertook research in a psychiatric clinic (1909–15), published a textbook on psychopathology (Allgemeine Psychopathologie, 1913) and was professor of psychology (1916–20). From 1921 he was professor of philosophy at Heidelberg, until dismissed by the Nazis in 1937. His work was banned but he stayed in Germany, and was awarded the Goethe Prize in 1947 for his uncompromising stand. In 1948 he settled in Basel as a Swiss citizen, and was appointed professor. Among his many works are Philosophie (3 vols, 1932), considered his most important writing, and Die Atombombe und die Zukunft des Menschen (1958, trans The Future of Mankind), in which he talks of the possibility of a world political union under which all could live and communicate in peace and freedom. |
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