Robert Zimmer (born 25 October 1953) is a German philosopher and essayist who writes biographies and popular introductions to philosophy and to the history of philosophy.
Robert Zimmer was born in Trier, West Germany on 25 October 1953.
He was educated at the German universities of Saarbrücken and Düsseldorf and wrote his doctoral dissertation on Edmund Burke.
His most popular book so far has been “Das Philosophenportal”, a collection of 16 essays on 16 different classical works of philosophy, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages (not yet in English).
He also translated a selection of essays by the 19th Century French critic and writer Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve.