Otto Pöggeler

Otto Pöggeler (12 December 1928 in Attendorn – 10 December 2014) was a German philosopher. He specialized in phenomenology and commenting on Heidegger. In 1963 he authored the acclaimed Martin Heidegger’s Path of Thinking, one of the first rigorous attempts at tracing the development of Heidegger's thought. He also published a study of poetry of Paul Celan, and was director of the Hegel-Archiv at the Ruhr University in Bochum.

Life and work Otto Pöggeler completed his Abitur at the Rivius-Gymnasium in his hometown of Attendorn. He studied philosophy and in 1955 earned his doctorate (Dr. phil.) in German studies at the University of Bonn under Johannes Hoffmeister with a dissertation on Hegels Kritik der Romantik (expanded edition published in Munich, 1999). In 1966, he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg under Hans-Georg Gadamer and began teaching there as a lecturer. His habilitation thesis on Hegels Jugendschriften und die Idee einer Phänomenologie des Geistes was partially published by him (Hegels Idee einer Phänomenologie des Geistes, 1973; Hegel-Studien).