Raymond Klibansky

Raymond Klibansky CC GOQ (October 15, 1905 – August 5, 2005) was a German-Canadian historian of philosophy and art.

He was married to Ethel Groffier, a professor in the Law Faculty, and died two months short before his hundredth birthday.

He became a British citizen in 1938, and during the Second World War was attached to the Political Warfare Executive, based at Woburn Abbey.

In 1946 Klibansky became the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University; he also lectured at the Université de Montréal.

[4] The Raymond Klibansky Prizes were formerly awarded each year for the best books in the humanities that had received support from the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP), part of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.