Paul Hensel

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Paul Hensel

1860–1930

A German philosopher shaped by the neo-Kantian debates of his time, he taught for many years at the University of Erlangen. His work is tied to questions of ethics, religion, and the history of philosophy in late 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.

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Rousseau

by Paul Hensel

About the author

Born on May 17, 1860, in Groß-Barthen in the Province of Prussia, he became a German philosopher and later taught at the University of Erlangen. He died on November 11, 1930, in Erlangen.

Paul Hensel is generally associated with the neo-Kantian world of German philosophy. Accounts of his career describe him as a scholar interested in ethics, religion, and the interpretation of major philosophical traditions.

Although he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, he belonged to an important generation of university philosophers who helped carry German philosophical discussion from the 19th century into the early 20th.