Wolfgang Schultz
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| Born | 28 June 1881 |
| Died | 24 September 1936 (aged 55) Munich, Germany |
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Wolfgang Schultz (28 June 1881 – 24 September 1936) was an Austrian philosopher who served as Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Wolfgang Schultz was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, on 28 June 1881. His father was a painter. After gaining his abitur, Schultz studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Vienna. He also took courses in philology and archaeology. Schultz gained his Ph.D. at Vienna in 1904 with a thesis on Ancient Greece.
During World War I, Schultz fought as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. From 1914 to 1920, Schultz edited the magazine Mitra. Monatsschrift für vergleichende Mythenforschung, which was dedicated to mythography. From 1918 to 1921 he was the administrator of the "Forschungsinstituts für Osten und Orient". From 1929 to 1931 he published Bernard Bolzano's "Wissenschaftslehre" in four volumes. Schultz joined the Nazi Party in 1932. Upon the forced retirement of Richard Hönigswald, Schultz was in 1934 appointed Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He was in close contact with Amt Rosenberg. Schultz was a publisher of numerous works on archaeology, religion philosophy and ideology. He died in Munich during an operation on 24 September 1936. After World War II, numerous works of Schultz were banned and destroyed in the Soviet occupation zone.
