Stephan Körner
British philosopher (1913–2000) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stephan Körner, FBA (26 September 1913 – 17 August 2000[lower-alpha 1]) was a British philosopher, who specialised in the work of Kant, the study of concepts, and in the philosophy of mathematics.
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Born | (1913-09-26)26 September 1913 |
Died | 17 August 2000(2000-08-17) (aged 86) Bristol, England, UK |
Education | Charles University, Prague; Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
Occupation | Philosopher |
Employer | University of Bristol 1952–1979, Yale University 1970–1984.[1] |
Spouse | |
Children | Thomas Körner, Ann M. Körner |
Born to a Jewish family in what would soon become Czechoslovakia, Körner left that country to avoid certain death at the hands of the Nazis after the German occupation in 1939, and came to the United Kingdom as a refugee, where he began his study of philosophy; by 1952 he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, taking up a second professorship at Yale in 1970. He was married to Edith Körner, and was the father of the mathematician Thomas Körner and the biochemist, writer and translator Ann M. Körner.