Thomas Meyer author biography, plus links to books by Thomas Meyer.

Thomas Meyer

Thomas Meyer, born 1966 in Bernkastel-Kues, specializes in modern German philosophy and the history of ideas. He earned his doctorate in 2003 and completed his habilitation in 2009. Meyer is currently a professor of philosophy at LMU Munich. He has held teaching positions at the Universities of Chicago, Vanderbilt (Nashville), Wake Forest (Winston-Salem), Zurich, and Graz. His writing has appeared in leading publications such as DIE ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Jüdische Allgemeine, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, BR2, and Deutschlandfunk. He has published extensively on Ernst Cassirer, as well as on Jewish philosophy and theology. His 2006 biography of Ernst Cassirer was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. His most recent works include Hannah Arendt: Die Biografie and Über Palästina (ed.). 

This biography was last updated on 08/11/2026.

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