| Lorenz B. Puntel | |
| Birth Name: | Lorenz Bruno Puntel |
| Birth Date: | 22 September 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Sobradinho, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Death Place: | Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany |
| School Tradition: | Continental philosophy Analytic philosophy Structural-systematic philosophy |
| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Education: | University of Munich |
| Main Interests: | Philosophy of science Philosophy of religion |
| Notable Ideas: | Structural-systematic philosophy Philosophical theory of everything |
Lorenz (Lorencino) Bruno Puntel (; pronounced as /de/; 22 September 1935 – 16 July 2024) was a German philosopher of Brazilian descent, who established the school of structural-systematic philosophy.[1] [2] Professor emeritus at the University of Munich, Puntel was named as one of the great contemporary philosophers, articulating his ideas from the most varied traditions.[3] [4] [5] [6]
Puntel studied philosophy, theology, philology and psychology in Munich, Innsbruck, Vienna, Paris, and Rome. He studied philosophy in Munich (1968) and in Catholic theology (1969) in Innsbruck. He became a professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Munich in 1975. He was a student of Karl Rahner and studied with Martin Heidegger, whose philosophy concerned him throughout his life.[7]
Puntel died in Augsburg, Bavaria on 16 July 2024, at the age of 88.[8]
Puntel's thought tries to reconstruct the systematics of philosophy from a very unique viewpoint, which involves the elaboration of a theoretical language, abandoning the idea of a language of predicates. Puntel drew on sources ranging from G. W. Leibniz, German idealism, Heidegger's phenomenology, and even analytic philosophy.[9]
From 1983, Puntel was a visiting professor at Pittsburgh, Harvard and Princeton. Retired in 2001, in 2016, he received an honorary doctorate from the Munich School of Philosophy.[10]
He also received the Findlay Book Prize in 2011.[11]