Richard Rudolf Walzer

Richard Rudolf Walzer, FBA (14 July 1900 in Berlin – 16 April 1975 in Oxford) was a German-born British scholar of Greek philosophy and of Arabic philosophy. He studied at the Werner-Siemens-Realgymnasium and the Frederick William University of Berlin. His career included positions as an Assistant and Privatdocent in Classics at the Frederick William University of Berlin (1927–1933), Lecturer in Greek Philosophy at the University of Rome (1933–1938), and various roles at Oriel College, Oxford, and St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 1942 to 1970. He was also an Honorary Professor at the University of Hamburg (1952) and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1953–1954). Walzer was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1956. He was known for his work on the transmission and reception of philosophical ideas between different cultures and languages.