Burghart Schmidt


Burghart Schmidt is a German philosopher. He is currently professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Education

Schmidt was educated in biology, chemistry, physics and then philosophy and history of art at the University of Tübingen. He was coworker for many years of Ernst Bloch, over whom he submitted later also numerous publications, among them the standard work Ernst Bloch. From 1968 to 1977 he worked as a scientific coworker of the philosopher and published his complete work at Suhrkamp. After the graduation in 1982 at the University of Tübingen as a Dr. phil. he wrote his habilitation in 1984 at Leibniz University Hannover.

Career

Schmidt taught from 1971 to 1975 at the University of Wuppertal, from 1975 to 1997 at Leibniz University Hannover, whose architecture faculty appointed him after the habilitation 1985 as a fee professor. From 1977 on he teaches also at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and from 1983 to 1997 he was also at the academy of Vienna. Since 1997 he is a professor for language and aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. As guest lecturer and/or a guest professor he worked 1984 to 1997 at the University of Klagenfurt, 1991/1992 at the Graz University of Technology, as well as at the International Centre for Culture and Management in Salzburg. Professor Dr. phil. habil. Burghart Schmidt lives since 1997 in Offenbach am Main and Vienna.

Selected works