Hans-Georg Gadamer, philosopher: born Marburg, Germany 11 February 1900; Professor of Philosophy, University of Leipzig 1939-47; Professor of Philosophy, University of Frankfurt am Main 1947-49; ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer was, by any measure, among the most important European philosophers of the last half-century. On March 13, he died in his native Germany at the age of 102. An “apprentice” of Martin ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer, a leading figure of 20th century philosophy who spent an extraordinarily long career contemplating the nature of meaning and understanding, died in Heidelberg, Germany, on March 13 ...

When Hans-Georg Gadamer lectured on philosophy -- as he continued to do until shortly before his death, last year, at the age of 102 -- he attracted crowds as large as a thousand people. They were ...

The German philosopher was best known for Truth and Method, a 1960 treatise on the shifting nature of human understanding. Gadamer's book, which drew from areas as diverse as classical philosophy and ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer, who has died in Heidelberg aged 102, was one of the outstanding figures of German 20th-century philosophy. He was not just astonishingly long-lived, but his frenetic philosophical ...

BERLIN -- Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, a German philosopher who devoted a scholarly lifetime to the exploration of human understanding and interpretation, died March 13 in Heidelberg, Germany. The cause ...

HANS-GEORG GADAMER, who has died aged 102, was a philosophical Nestor, indeed a Methuselah, who preserved the finest traditions of German culture during the Third Reich, and did much to rebuild his ...