Bernhard Alexander

Bernhard Alexander (1850–1927) was a Hungarian writer of Jewish background, and a professor of philosophy and aesthetics.

From 1892, he also lectured on dramaturgy and esthetics at the National Theater Academy, and on the latter subject and on the history of civilization at the Francis Joseph Polytechnic.

Alexander, together with Professor Józef Bánóczi, later edited a seminal series of books on philosophers, the Filosofiai Irók Tára, for which he did translations and annotations of René Descartes, David Hume, and the Prolegomena to Immanuel Kant.

He was an active writer on matters of education, editing the pedagogical journal Magyar Tanügy from 1882 to 1886.

However, Alexander became pariah in the nationalistic, anti-Semitic environment of post-1919 Hungary and Miklós Horthy's government, and spent four years abroad.