Arnold Metzger
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Arnold Metzger (24 February 1892 – 16 August 1974) was a German philosopher.
Metzger was born in Landau. He was a student of Edmund Husserl. Having served in World War I, and been imprisoned in Siberia, he made his way back to Germany in 1919. On the way he participated in a soldiers' soviet in Brest-Litovsk.[1]
Having left Nazi Germany in 1938, Metzger went to Paris first, then to England.[2] From 1941 he lived in the United States for 20 years, where he met Ernst Bloch and accepted US-citizenship in 1947.[2] In 1952 he returned and took up a teaching position in Munich[3] as an honorary professor for philosophy.[2] From 1958 he held German citizenship again.[2]
Metzger died in Bad Gastein, in 1974.
