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Paul Gerhard Natorp: Neo-Kantian Philosopher

Paul Gerhard Natorp (1854-1924) was a German philosopher and educationalist, co-founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and an authority on Plato. He served as a professor at Marburg University from 1885 until his retirement in 1922 and influenced notable thinkers such as Hans-Georg Gadamer and Edmund Husserl. In addition to his philosophical work, Natorp was an ambitious composer, writing chamber music and songs.

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Paul Gerhard Natorp: Neo-Kantian Philosopher

Paul Gerhard Natorp (1854-1924) was a German philosopher and educationalist, co-founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and an authority on Plato. He served as a professor at Marburg University from 1885 until his retirement in 1922 and influenced notable thinkers such as Hans-Georg Gadamer and Edmund Husserl. In addition to his philosophical work, Natorp was an ambitious composer, writing chamber music and songs.

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aul Gerhard Natorp ( 4 January 1854 – 17 August 1924) was a German philosopher

and educationalist, considered one of the co-founders of the Marburg school of


neo-Kantianism. He was known as an authority on Plato.

Paul Natorp was born in Düsseldorf, the son of the Protestant minister Adelbert
Natorp and his wife Emilie Keller. From 1871 he studied music, history, classical
philology and philosophy in Berlin, Bonn and Strasbourg. He completed his
doctoral dissertation in 1876 at the University of Strasbourg under the supervision
of the philosopher Ernst Laas and in 1881 completed his Habilitation under the
neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen. In 1885 he became an extraordinary professor and
in 1893 became an ordinary professor in philosophy and pedagogy at Marburg
University, a position he retained until his retirement in 1922. In the winter
semester of 1923–24 Natorp conducted an intensive exchange of ideas with Martin
Heidegger, who had been called to Marburg and whose work on Duns Scotus
Natorp had read very early on.

In 1887 he married his cousin Helene Natorp; they had five children. Natorp was
an ambitious composer, who wrote chiefly chamber music (including a cello
sonata, a violin sonata, and a piano trio). He also wrote some 100 songs and two
choral works. He conducted a correspondence with Johannes Brahms, who
dissuaded him from becoming a professional composer.

He was an influence on the early work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and had a


profound effect on the thought of Edmund Husserl, the "father" of phenomenology.
His students included the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer, the theologian
Karl Barth and the author of Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak.

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