Ernst Tugendhat

Ernst Tugendhat (; 8 March 1930 – 13 March 2023) was a Czechoslovak-born German philosopher. He was a scion of the wealthy and influential Jewish Tugendhat family. They lived in Venezuela during the Nazi regime, and he studied first at Stanford University, then at Freiburg. He taught internationally in Europe and South America, with a focus on language analysis. a wealthy Jewish family who had commissioned Mies van der Rohe to design the Villa Tugendhat in Brno. The last two children were born after the family migrated to Venezuela. Because of the student movement and as a protest against the situation at German universities in the 1970s, Tugendhat gave up his position and relocated to Starnberg, where Jürgen Habermas worked at the time. He received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2005, and from the University of Zürich in 2009. In 2005 he was awarded the Meister Eckhart Prize; he donated the prize money to a school, "Talitha Kumi", in Beit Jala, Palestine.