Kurt Flasch (born 12 March 1930, Mainz) is a German philosopher, who works mainly as a historian of medieval thought and of late antiquity. Flasch was professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. He was / is a member of several German and international Academies. In 2000, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Awards and recognitions Sigmund Freud Prize 2000 Honorary Doctorate from University of Lucerne 2002 Hannah Arendt Prize 2009 Honorary Doctorate from University of Basel 2010 Joseph Breitbach Prize 2012 Works Katholische Wegbereiter des Nationalsozialismus. Michael Schmaus, Joseph Lortz, Josef Pieper. Essay. Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann, 2021, ISBN 978-3-465-02706-5. References 1930 births Living people 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century German philosophers German male writers Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities