Hasso Hofmann (4 August 1934 – 21 January 2021) was a German philosopher and jurist.

Biography

Hofmann studied philosophy and law at Heidelberg University,

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg under professors such as Ernst Forsthoff,

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, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and

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. After the '' Staatsexamen'', he became a certified lawyer. He taught at the University of Würzburg from 1976 to 1992, when he became a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, eventually serving as Vice-President of the university. From 1989 to 1990, he was a fellow at the

Berlin Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (german: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) is an interdisciplinary institute founded in 1981 in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany, dedicated to research projects in the natural and social sciences. It is modeled ...

and became a member of the '. He was also a member of the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledg ...

and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Hasso Hofmann died in Würzburg on 21 January 2021 at the age of 86.

Publications

*''Legitimität gegen Legalität. Der Weg der politischen Philosophie Carl Schmitts'' (1964) *''Repräsentation. Studien zur Wort- und Begriffsgeschichte von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert'' (1974) *''Legitimität und Rechtsgeltung. Verfassungstheoretische Bemerkungen zu einem Problem der Staatslehre und der Rechtsphilosophie'' (1977) *''Rechtsfragen der atomaren Entsorgung'' (1981) *''Recht – Politik – Verfassung. Studien zur Geschichte der politischen Philosophie'' (1986) *''Verfassungsrechtliche Perspektiven. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1980–1994'' (1995) *''Einführung in die Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie'' (2000) *''Recht und Kultur. Drei Reden (= Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen und Reden zur Philosophie, Politik und Geistesgeschichte'' (2009) *''Rechtsphilosophie nach 1945. Zur Geistesgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland'' (2012)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hofmann, Hasso 1934 births 2021 deaths German philosophers Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the University of Würzburg