Hans Blumenberg

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Hans Blumenberg was born on July 13 1920 in Lubeck, Germany. He is known for his study of philosophy, mainly Germanistik and classical philosophy (1939-47). He died on March 28, 1996 from Westphalia.

He wrote many famous writings including:

(1947) Thesis of contributions for the problem of the originalness of the mittelalterlichscholastischen Ontologie (unpublished).

(1950) Habilitation in Kiel with the study the ontologische distance. An investigation on the Krisis of the Phaenomenologie Husserls (unpublished).

(1966) The legitimacy of the modern times.

(1981) The genesis of the kopernikanischen world. The legibility of the world.

(1986) Work on the myth. Lifetime and world time.

During his lifetime he was a member of the senate of the German research council, a professor at several universities in Germany and a joint founder of the research group "Poetik and Hermeneutik".