Konrad Cramer

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Konrad Cramer
Born	Konrad Niklas Cramer 6 December 1933 Breslau, Germany
12 February 201312 February 2013
🎓 Alma mater	University of Heidelberg
💼 Occupation
Notable work	Materialien zu Kants Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (1975) Nicht‑reine synthetische Urteile a priori (1985) Kant (1987)

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Konrad Niklas Cramer (6 December 1933 – 12 February 2013) was a German philosopher and university professor. Born in Breslau, he became known for his contributions to theoretical philosophy and for his long academic career at the University of Göttingen.

Early life and education

Konrad Niklas Cramer was born on 6 December 1933 in Breslau, the son of the philosopher Wolfgang Cramer. After finishing school, he studied philosophy, sociology, law, Latin, and Hispanic studies at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, Tübingen, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, and Heidelberg, supported by a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. He completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 1967 under Hans-Georg Gadamer and Dieter Henrich, writing a dissertation on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.

Academic career

Cramer worked as a research assistant at the philosophical seminar in Heidelberg until 1974 and completed his habilitation the following year. After two years as a university lecturer, he became full professor at the Pädagogische Hochschule Westfalen-Lippe in Münster in 1977, moved to the University of Münster in 1980, and in 1982 accepted a chair in philosophy at the University of Göttingen, where he taught and researched until his retirement. He became a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1997, held visiting professorships in Berlin, Halle‑Wittenberg, and Barcelona during the 1990s, and served as the first holder of the Christian Wolff Foundation Professorship in 1991–1992. In 1998 he was awarded the Commemorative Medal of the Faculty of Medicine at Jagiellonian University in Kraków for his work in ethics, and he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology in 2002. His academic work also included extensive international teaching, editorial responsibilities for Neue Hefte für Philosophie, and numerous publications on Kant and modern philosophy.

Philosophical work

Cramer specialized in the history of modern philosophy from Descartes to Husserl. His research focused on questions of subjectivity, metaphysics, philosophical theology, and ethics. He published on figures such as Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, G. W. F. Hegel, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Edmund Husserl, Hermann Cohen, and Paul Natorp. In 1998 he chaired the editorial commission of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences responsible for the Academy Edition of Kant's writings. He also served as co‑editor of Neue Hefte für Philosophie from 1971 to 1985, contributed to volumes in the series Neue Studien für Philosophie, and from 1996 onward worked on the critical complete edition of Schleiermacher's writings.

Honours and memberships

• Full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1997)
• Commemorative Medal of the Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1998)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Halle‑Wittenberg (2002)

Publications

Monographs

• Materialien zu Kants Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (with Rüdiger Bittner), Frankfurt am Main, 1975
• Nicht‑reine synthetische Urteile a priori. Ein Problem der Transzendentalphilosophie Immanuel Kants, Heidelberg, 1985
• Kant, Bogotá, 1987

Edited volumes

• Spinozas Ethik und ihre frühe Wirkung. Papers from the 8th Wolfenbüttel Symposium, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 1981
• Theorie der Subjektivität: Dieter Henrich zum 60. Geburtstag, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1990
• with Christian Beyer: Edmund Husserl 1859–2009. Contributions from the 150th anniversary symposium of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2011
• with Titus Oliver Cramer: Wolfgang Cramer: Die absolute Reflexion. Schriften aus dem Nachlass, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 2012

Further reading

• Jürgen Stolzenberg (ed.): Subjekt und Metaphysik: Konrad Cramer zu Ehren aus Anlass seines 65. Geburtstags, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001
• Ulrich Barth: Die subjektivitätstheoretischen Prämissen der Glaubenslehre. In: Aufgeklärter Protestantismus, Tübingen, 2004, pp. 329–351
• Jürgen Stolzenberg: Nachruf auf Konrad Cramer, in: Jahrbuch der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014.

External links

• Author profile at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Author profile at Suhrkamp
• Konrad Cramer at Deutsche Biographie
• Konrad Cramer at De Gruyter Brill

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