Alfred Brunswig (born 13 June 1877 in Plau am See; died 22 June 1927 in Münster) was a German philosopher. He taught at Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster (Westphalia). After graduation in Munich 1896 he studied there and in Berlin to promotion in 1904 with Theodor Lipps and initially took its psychologism. After private studies with Edmund Husserl in Göttingen and Carl Stumpf in Berlin followed in 1910 in Munich, the Habilitation. He criticized Husserl evidence concept in the essences. From 1914 to 1918 he served in World War I and received the Iron Cross second class. In the winter semester 1916/17 he was appointed to Munster. He had the "courage to metaphysics" found through his front experience and returned hereinafter apparent faith. He was Protestant, probably with some Jewish roots. His Leibniz interpretation 1925 came the "Germanic thinkers" out. Literary works Das Vergleichen und die Relationserkenntnis, Leipzig/Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1910 Das Grundproblem Kants, 1914 Hegel, 1922 Leibniz, 1922 References https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=116814101 1877 births 1929 deaths People from Plau am See 19th-century German philosophers People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Academic staff of the University of Münster German male writers 20th-century German philosophers