Name	Fischer, Kurt Rudolf
Alternative Names
ID	649
Gender	male
Lifespan	1922-02-26 - 2014-03-22
Professions	philosopher (Q4964182)

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Uri(s)	https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/2_33 https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/649/ https://d-nb.info/gnd/123728800
Notes	Fischer, an Austrian philosopher, emigrated as a young Jewish student with his family, first to Brno and then to Shanghai, where he spent nine years as a student and also found his livelihood as a successful boxer, before migrating to the USA. His advanced studies in philosophy at Berkeley not only allowed him to establish close ties to other Austrian intellectual refugees but also to prepare for his own academic career. He returned for brief periods as a student and then as a lecturer to Vienna, in 1954-55 and 1966-1967 respectively, but failed to get a permanent academic position. He returned as a Fulbright fellow later in the 1970s and was given an honorary professorship in 1980. His output was prolific; he stressed the continuity of a philosophical tradition in Vienna from Bolzano and Franz Brentano (the topic of Fischer’s own doctoral thesis) to the analytical philosophy of the “Wiener Kreis” .
References	Nagl, Ludwig. "Some Reflections on how the Remigrant K.R. Fischer influenced Vienna’s Academic Discourses." Return from Exile - Rückkehr aus dem Exil. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2017, 347-362. Stadler, Friedrich. "Exil als Lebensform – der Emigrant und Remigrant Kurt Rudolf Fischer (1922 – 2014)." Return from Exile - Rückkehr aus dem Exil. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2017, 331-346.