Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) was a professor at the University of Berlin, after studying in Marburg, and Hamburg became the first Jewish president a German university. In 1933, Hitler came to power, began an exile that will make landfall first two years at Oxford, then six in Gothenburg (Sweden) and finally four in New York._x000D_

Among the extensive work of author emphasizes philosophy of symbolic forms and The Myth of the State.