Hermann Cohen

Hermann Cohen (1842 to 1918) was a German Jewish philosopher and one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, often held to be the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century. Born in Coswig in Anhalt, he studied at Breslau, Berlin and Halle, became known early as a profound scholar of Kant, and was appointed to the University of Marburg in 1873, where he became a full professor in 1876. His three early books interpreted Kant on experience, ethics and aesthetics, and from 1902 he published his own system in the Logic of Pure Knowledge, the Ethics of Pure Will and the Aesthetics of Pure Feeling. He also edited the work of Friedrich Albert Lange, helped found a society for the scholarly study of Judaism in 1902, and wrote on Jewish religion and ethics.