Fritz Medicus

{{Expand German|topic=bio|Fritz Medicus (Philosoph)|date=May 2017}}{{Short description|German-Swiss philosopher (1876–1956)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|04|23}}

| birth_place = Stadtlauringen, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|01|13|1876|04|23}}

| death_place = Zürich, Switzerland

| nationality = German - Swiss

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Fritz Medicus (April 23, 1876 – January 13, 1956) was a German-Swiss philosopher. He was awarded his doctorate while studying in Jena, with the publication of his dissertation, Kant's transcendental aesthetics and non-euclidian geometry. He was the Chair of Philosophy at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and moved to ETH Zurich in 1911.{{cite journal|last1=Marti|first1=Fritz|title=Fritz Medicus (1876–1956)|journal=Southern Journal of Philosophy|date=March 1970|volume=8|issue=1|pages=3–13|doi=10.1111/j.2041-6962.1970.tb02087.x}} Medicus wrote in the tradition of German idealism.{{cite book |last1=Baumrin |first1=Judith |url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761865995/Fritz-Marti-Immigrant-A-Biographical-Memoir |title=Fritz Marti: Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir |date=2015 |publisher=University Press of America |isbn= |page=16 |id={{ISBN|978-0-7618-6598-8|978-0-7618-6599-5}}}}