Philosopher,Private lecturer - Prof. Dr. Fritz Heinemann

Entry address book Frankfurt a.M.1928- Heinemann Fritz,Dr.phil. Privatdozent,Mendelssohn-Str.81-Erdgeschoß. Fritz (Friedrich Heinrich) Heinemann was born on February 8, 1889 in Lüneburg.His parents were the lawyer and later judicial councilor Robert Simon Heinemann and Selma Heinemann,née Sternau.After graduating from the Johanneum Lüneburg, he studied philosophy in Cambridge,Marburg,München and Berlin from 1907.He received his doctorate in philosophy in June 1912 (The Structure of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Problem of Time).During World War I he was a doctor's clerk in a military hospital near Berlin. In 1918 he married Adelheid Schiff, born in Frankfurt on June 5, 1890, daughter of Jakob Hermann Schiff and Sophie Schiff, née Heilbrunn. In 1920 their son Francis Marcus was born. In 1919 Fritz Heinemann received the Bonitz Prize from the Vienna Academy of Sciences for his work on Plotinus. Forschungen über die plotinische Frage, Plotins Entwicklung und sein System.1929 In 1930 Fritz Heinemann was appointed associate professor at the University of Frankfurt a.M. But already in September 1933 Fritz Heinemann lost his teaching license due to the National Socialist „Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service“.In 1937 the Heinemann family managed to emigrate. The Heinemann family succeeded in emigrating to Oxford, after Fritz Heinemann had already worked separately from his wife and son in Amersfoort (NL) and at the Sorbonne in Paris from the fall of 1933.

From 1939-1956 Fritz Heinemann taught at Manchester College in Oxford.

In 1957 he received the title of full professor of philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, but remained connected to the city of Oxford throughout his life, where he died on January 7, 1970, after a long illness.

From 1939-1956 Fritz Heinemann taught at Manchester College in Oxford.