Eugen Fink 1905 – 1975

Eugen Fink was a German phenomenologist, the closest collaborator of Edmund Husserl in his last years and a long-time colleague of Martin Heidegger at Freiburg. He served as Husserl's research assistant from 1928 until Husserl's death in 1938 and helped to prepare Husserl's late manuscripts on the crisis of European sciences. His own philosophical work, including the Sixth Cartesian Meditation, the Heraclitus seminar with Heidegger, and Play as Symbol of the World, developed a phenomenology of cosmology and play. He took his doctorate under Husserl and his Habilitation under Heidegger.