) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 philosopher.

Biography

Walter Ehrlich was born on May 16, 1896, as the son of the merchant, Jakob Ehrlich, and his wife, Nina Ehrlich, née Flatow, in Berlin

Berlin

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. He attended the Königlich Französisches Gymnasium (Royal French Gymnasium) in Berlin until Easter of 1914. After that, he studied mathematics

Mathematics

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 and theoretical physics

Theoretical physics

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 at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1915, he joined the military and participated in the eastern campaign until October 1915. During this time, he contracted a prolonged illness, which continued until the end of the summer of 1917. In October 1917, he enrolled in the University of Berlin to study philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 and broke off his studies at the end of 1918. In Berlin, Ehrlich attended lectures by the professors Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher. He was one of the major figures in the development of philosophical idealism in the first half of the 20th century...

, Max Dessoir

Max Dessoir

Max Dessoir was a German philosopher and theorist of aesthetics.Dessoir was born in Berlin. He earned doctorates from the universities of Berlin and Würzburg...

, Benno Erdmann, Alois Riehl

Alois Riehl

The philosopher Alois Adolf Riehl was born in Bozen in Austria .The brother of Josef Riehl, he was a Neo-Kantian and worked as a professor at Graz, then Freiburg and finally in Berlin, where he commissioned Mies van der Rohe to design his house in Neubabelsberg.For Riehl, philosophy was not the...

, Friedrich Julius Schmidt and Ernst Troeltsch

Ernst Troeltsch

Ernst Troeltsch was a German Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy of history, and an influential figure in German thought before 1914...

. After February 1919, he began philosophical and literary studies as a regular student at the University of Heidelberg under Heinrich Maier

Heinrich Maier

Heinrich Maier, DDr., born February 16, 1908 in Großweikersdorf, was executed on March 22, 1945 as the last victim of Hitler's régime in Vienna.He was a Roman Catholic priest, pedagogue, philosopher and a member of the Austrian resistance.-Family:...

, Heinrich Rickert

Heinrich Rickert

Heinrich John Rickert was a German philosopher, one of the leading Neo-Kantians.-Life:He was born in Danzig, Prussia and died in Heidelberg, Germany.-Thought:...

, Hans Driesch, Karl Jaspers

Karl Jaspers

Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. After being trained in and practicing psychiatry, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system...

, Max von Waldberg, Friedrich Gundolf

Friedrich Gundolf

Friedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger was a German-Jewish literary scholar and poet and one of the most famous academics of the Weimar Republic.- Education :...

 (Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger), Friedrich Neumann and Leonardo Olschki. Heinrich Maier

Heinrich Maier

Heinrich Maier, DDr., born February 16, 1908 in Großweikersdorf, was executed on March 22, 1945 as the last victim of Hitler's régime in Vienna.He was a Roman Catholic priest, pedagogue, philosopher and a member of the Austrian resistance.-Family:...

, philosopher who taught at the University of Heidelberg since 1918, stimulated and encouraged Ehrlich with his doctoral dissertation, Der Freiheitsbegriff bei Kant

KANT

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 und Schopenhauer (The Concept of Freedom in Kant and Schopenhauer).