Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher and university teacher born in Marburg on 11 February 1900 and died in Heidelberg on 13 March 2002. He was educated at the University of Wrocław and the University of Marburg, where he studied under Martin Heidegger, Richard Hönigswald, Paul Natorp, and Nicolai Hartmann. His academic career included teaching positions at Heidelberg University, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Marburg, and Leipzig University.

Gadamer is the author of the notable work *Truth and Method*, as well as *Zukunft ist Herkunft* and *Die Philosophie und ihre Geschichte*. He received the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, the Hegel Prize, and the Sigmund Freud Prize. He was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Academy for Language and Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is buried in Heidelberg.