Klaus Heinrich

Klaus Heinrich was a German philosopher of religion.

Career

In 2002, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
In 1948 he was a founding student member of the Free University of Berlin and from 1971 to 1995 he was a full professor for "Religious Studies on the Philosophy of Religion" at the Institute for Religious Studies. After training in psychoanalysis and studying law, philosophy, Protestant theology, sociology, art history and literary studies, first at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Unter den Linden in Berlin and then at the FU, he received his doctorate from the FU in 1952. In 1964 he completed his habilitation here Versuch über die Schwierigkeit nein zu sagen.
Michael Stausberg, historian of the study of religion, says of him:

Awards

Sigmund Freud Prize