Kurt Rudolf Fischer (February 26, 1922 – March 22, 2014) was a Jewish-Austrian philosopher who emigrated to Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1938 and to Shanghai in 1940.
He became Chinese boxing champion and started studying philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley after World War II, where he made friends with Paul Feyerabend.
Fischer was awarded the gold medal for Services to the City of Vienna in 2000 and in 2001.
He also received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class.
[2] He died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on March 22, 2014, at the age of 92.