| Code | DS/UK/2281 |
| Dates | 1874-1945 |
| Person Name | Cassirer; Ernst Alfred (1874-1945); Professor |
| Surname | Cassirer |
| Forenames | Ernst Alfred |
| Title | Professor |
| Activity | Professor of Philosophy in Germany, England and the United States. |
| Relationships | Husband to Toni Cassirer (1883-1961); father to Heinz Cassirer, philosopher (1903-1979); close friend and academic contact of Aby Warburg (1866-1929); teacher of Walter Solmitz (1905-1962); cousin of Bruno Cassirer (1872-1941) |
| History | Studied at Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich and Harburg; Ph.D. from Marburg (1899); taught Philosophy at University of Berlin (1905-1919); Professorship at Hamburg, maintaining close contact with Warburg Institute (1919-1933); elected Vice Chancellor at Hamburg (1929-1930); forced out of post due to National Socialist laws (1933); fled Germany (1933); appointed as lecturer at All Souls' College, Oxford, through Chichele lectureship (1933-1935); Professor of Philosophy at Gothenburg, Sweden (1936-1941); exile in America (1941-); Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University (1941-1944); Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University (1944-1945); died of heart failure (1945) |
| Source | Wittek, Susanne. 'Ernst Cassirer. Der Geistesgegenwärtige'. Die Zeit, 12 April 2020, https://www.zeit.de/hamburg/2020-04/ernst-cassirer-philosoph-universitaet-hamburg-antisemitismus/komplettansicht [DoA 06/08/2025]
Cassirer, Toni. 'Mein Leben mit Ernst Cassirer' (Gerstenberg, 1981)
[obituary] Marcuse, Ludwig. 'Ernst Cassirer', Aufbau, April 20 1945
[obituary] 'Ernst Cassirer', The New York Times, April 15 1945
Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945', ed. Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider and Jas Elsner (Oxford: OUP, 2017), p. 5. |
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