Kurt Flasch

Kurt Flasch (born 12 March 1930, Mainz) is a German philosopher, who works mainly as a historian of medieval thought and of late antiquity.

Flasch was professor at the Ruhr University Bochum.

He was / is a member of several German and international Academies.

In 2000, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize[1] by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.