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Andreas Urs Sommer
Sommer in 2012

Andreas Urs Sommer (born 14 July 1972) is a German philosopher, born in Zofingen, Switzerland. He specializes in the history of philosophy and its theory, ethics, philosophy of religion, and Skepticism. His historical studies center on the philosophy of Enlightenment and Nietzsche, but they also deal with Kant, Max Weber, Pierre Bayle, Jonathan Edwards, and others.

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Andreas Urs Sommer studied philosophy, theology and German literature in Basel, Göttingen and Freiburg. He obtained his doctorate at Basel University in 1998, and received his Habilitation in Greifswald in 2004. He was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University in 1998/99 and a fellow at the University of London in 2000/01.

In 2008 Sommer became responsible for the "Nietzsche-Kommentar" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.[1] He was also appointed the director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung in Naumburg (Saale).[2] In 2011 he became a professor for philosophy at the University of Freiburg.

Sommer also publishes in the field of numismatics.

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Awards

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  • 1992 3rd Eligius-Prize of the German Numismatic Society
  • 1994 De-Wette-Prize of the Theological Seminary of Basel University
  • 2003 La lunette d’or of the Swiss Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 2012 Friedrich Nietzsche Prize

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