Robert Vischer [SEP] place of death
Robert Vischer
Robert Vischer (22 February 1847, Tübingen – 25 March 1933, Vienna) was a German philosopher who invented the term "Einfühlung" (esthetic sympathy, later translated in English as empathy), which was to be promoted by Theodor Lipps, Freud's admired philosopher.
Vischer’s use of "Einfühlung".
Vischer postulated the as yet undescribed distinction between "verstehen" and "Einfühlung" (“in-feeling” or “feeling-into”) in his 1873 doctoral thesis "On
"Commemorating Witnesses and Martyrs of the Past: A Reformed Perspective", 2006.
External links.
- Letter from WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, to Prof. Dr Lukas Vischer, on the occasion of his 80th birthday
- Letter from WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, to Prof. Dr Lukas Vischer, on the occasion of his death
- pictures Symposion 80th birthday November 24th 2006, Bern Switzerland
- Lukas Vischer: a tower of strength and a sharp theological mind