Birth Date: | 23 April 1876 |
Birth Place: | Stadtlauringen, Germany |
Death Place: | Zürich, Switzerland |
Nationality: | German - Swiss |
Occupation: | philosopher |
Fritz Medicus (April 23, 1876 – January 13, 1956) was a German-Swiss philosopher. He was awarded his doctorate while studying in Jena, with the publication of his dissertation, Kant's transcendental aesthetics and non-euclidian geometry. He was the Chair of Philosophy at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and moved to ETH Zurich in 1911.[1] Medicus wrote in the tradition of German idealism.[2]