Robert Zimmer

Robert Zimmer, born in Trier, West Germany, on 25 October 1953, is a German philosopher and essayist. He is recognized for writing biographies and accessible introductions to philosophy and its history. Zimmer pursued his education at the universities of Saarbrücken and Düsseldorf, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on Edmund Burke. From 1986 to 2013, he resided in Berlin as a freelance writer and publicist, subsequently relocating to Stuttgart in 2013. His most notable work to date is "Das Philosophenportal," a collection of sixteen essays dedicated to sixteen distinct classical philosophical works. This book has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2010, he published a biography of Arthur Schopenhauer and also translated a selection of essays by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. Zimmer adheres to critical rationalism and, in collaboration with Martin Morgenstern, authored a concise and popular biography of Karl Popper, while also editing the correspondence between Popper and Hans Albert.