Burghart Schmidt
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Burghart Schmidt (30 November 1942 – 13 February 2022[1]) was a German philosopher. He was professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
He was born in Wildeshausen, Oldenburg, Germany. 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 (1985). 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.
