Richard Hönigswald (18 July 1875 in Magyar-Óvár in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the present Mosonmagyaróvár in Hungary) – 11 June 1947 in New Haven, Connecticut) was a well-known philosopher belonging to the wider circle of neo-Kantianism.
The emphasis of his work lay on the theory of cognition from the point of view of validation and the philosophy of language.
Beyond that, Hönigswald tried to develop a method of teaching that would be applicable to the natural sciences and the humanities equally.
In 1933, as a Jew, he was compulsorily retired after the Law for the Restoration of Professional Civil Service was passed in Germany.
[3] At the time of the Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) in 1938, he spent three weeks in Dachau concentration camp.