Helmut Girndt

Helmut Girndt (born May 13, 1934) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the Institut für Philosophie in the University of Duisburg-Essen. As a major specialist in the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Girndt has been described as one of the leading representatives of Neo-Fichteanism in Germany.

Life and works Girndt received his doctorate in 1959 from LMU Munich via Hegel's "Differenzschrift" (Die Differenz des Fichteschen und Hegelschen Systems in der Hegelschen ‚Differenzschrif), qualified as a postdoctoral fellow with a thesis on Max Weber, spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley and then taught as an assistant and associate professor in the USA. He was appointed to the University of Duisburg-Essen in 1973, he became co-founder of the “International Johann Gottlieb Fichte Society” in 1987 and was elected its president in 1997. Teaching and research stays took him to New Mexico, Korea and Japan. He is the author of two monographs, editor of writings of various philosophical content and about fifty scientific essays.

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