Vladimír Hoppe (1882-1931)

Vladimír Hoppe was a Czech idealistic philosophical thinker of the first half of the twentieth century. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the main events of his life. Vladimír Hoppe was born on the 19th August 1882 in Brno. He graduated from the Grammar School in Kroměříž in 1903. Vladimír Hoppe studied at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, where he obtained the doctorate in 1907. His doctoral dissertation was Nástin sociologického pojetí světa. In 1922 he became a private assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University on the grounds of his habilitation Problém intelektuelního názoru a intuice u Kanta a Schopenhauera. In 1927 he went on to become a professor at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. He died on the 3rd March 1931 in Prague.