Rudolph Herbert Weingartner (February 12, 1927 – November 16, 2020) was an American philosopher and academic administrator.
[1][2] Weingartner was born on February 12, 1927, in Heidelberg, Germany, and came to the United States at the age of 12 with his parents.
[1][3][4] He began his academic career at San Francisco State University and then served as chairman of the philosophy department at Vassar College.
He then became a full-time administrator, serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University for 13 years.
His academic an professional books include: Experience and Culture: The Philosophy of Georg Simmel (1962) The Unity of the Platonic Dialogue: The Cratylus, The Protagoruas, the Parmenides (1973) Undergraduate Education: Goals and Means (1992) Fitting Form to Function: A Primer on the Organization of Academic Institutions (1996) The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration (1999) He wrote about his life in Mostly About Me (2003)[7] and A Sixty-Year Ride though the World of Education (2007)