Pascal Mercier

 

real name: Peter Bieri
born 23 June 1944 in Bern (Switzerland)

© Bieri Peter Bauer

1963   studied Indian and English studies in London   
1964-1970  studied Philosophy, Philology and Indian and English studies in Heidelberg
1971 PhD in Philosophy on the topic "time"
1973-1975   research stays in Berkeley and Harvard
1981 Habilitation
1981-1993 Professor for Philosophy in Hamburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, Bielefeld, Marburg
1993-2007   Professor for Philosophy at the department for Analytic and Linguistic Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
2006 Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize
2007 Grinzane Cavour Prize; Lichtenberg Medal of the University of Göttingen
2008 

guest professor for poetics at University Heidelberg

Last update June 2011
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