Fritz Heinemann (8 February 1889 – 7 January 1970) was a German philosopher.
Born in Lüneburg, he taught at Frankfurt University from 1930 to 1933. From 1939 to 1956, he taught at Manchester College, Oxford.
In Neue Wege der Philosophie (1929) Heinemann heralded the rise of the Existential movement by coining the term Existenzphilosphie, translated as Existentialism.
Works Plotin. Forschungen über die plotinische Frage, 1921 Neue Wege der Philosophie, 1929 Odysseus oder die Zukunft der Philosophie, 1939 Existentialism and the Modern Predicament, 1953 Existenzphilosophie: lebendig oder tot?, 1963
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