Birgit Sandkaulen

Birgit Sandkaulen (also Sandkaulen-Bock, born 1959 in Koblenz) is a German philosopher and professor at Ruhr University Bochum.

Life Birgit Sandkaulen studied philosophy and German studies and literature at the University of Tübingen and the University of Poitiers from 1979. She received her doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1989 with a thesis on Schelling. After her habilitation at Heidelberg University with a study on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's critique of reason, she became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jena in 2000. Her teaching and research activities have focused on classical German philosophy (German idealism). In 2011, she was appointed to the Chair of Philosophy with a special focus on classical German philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum. From 2011 to 2014, she was a member of the university senate. She has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts since 2013. In 2016, she became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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In German