Richard Hönigswald, the German philosopher, was born in Magyarovar, a small Hungarian town near the Austrian border. He received a degree in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1902 and then studied philosophy under Alexius Meinong at Graz and Alois Riehl at Halle, receiving a doctorate in philosophy in 1904. He taught at the University of Breslau from 1906 until 1930, when he accepted a chair in philosophy at the University of Munich. Because he was a Jew, Hönigswald was deprived of his academic position in 1933. After the pogrom of 1938 he was sent to Dachau, but in 1939 he managed to immigrate to the United States. He lived in New York and engaged in research and writing until his death.

Hönigswald remained closer to the original doctrine of Immanuel Kant, as exemplified in the Transcendental Aesthetic, the Critique of...