Hönigswald studied medicine and philosophy under Alois Riehl and Alexius von Meinong and from 1916 was professor of philosophy , psychology and pedagogy in Breslau ( now Wrocław ) . There he supervised Norbert Elias 's doctorate up to its conclusion in 1924 . From 1930 he was a professor at Munich . 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 . He also dealt with questions of the psychology of thought and of pedagogy . In 1933 , as a Jew , he was compulsorily retired . At the time of the Kristallnacht ( '' The Night of Broken Glass '' ) in 1938 , he spent three weeks in Dachau concentration camp . In 1939 he emigrated with his wife and daughter by way of Switzerland to the United States .
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Richard Hönigswald