CITY AND SCHOOL
Friedrich August von Hayek was a professor at the University of Freiburg from 1962 to 1968 and returned to the Breisgau in 1977, where he spent the last years of his life. Philippovich and Hans Mayer taught here as well.
Friedrich August von Hayek was a professor at the University of Freiburg here from 1962 until his retirement in 1968, and one of the students he taught was Roland Baader. After his unsatisfying time in Salzburg, he returned to the Breisgau in 1977 and spent the last years of his life there. Eugen Philippovich von Philippsberg taught at the University of Freiburg at the end of the nineteenth century, first as an extraordinary and later as an ordinary professor. Hans Mayer worked at the University of Freiburg from 1912 to 1914 as an extraordinary professor.
Who Met Whom Here.
Where paths crossed in Freiburg: teachers and students, Privatseminar members, colleagues, antipodes. Filter by relationship type and phase, with counts.
- 1961–1968
Through his writings and the edited anthology “Logik der Freiheit” he contributed substantially to reviving the tradition of the Austrian School, and Hayek's work in particular, in the German-speaking world.
What this page documents
- APA
- Freiburg. (n.d.). Edited by mises.at and scholarium. Accessed July 18, 2026, from https://mises.at/en/orte/freiburg
- Chicago
- “Freiburg.” n.d. Edited by mises.at and scholarium. Accessed July 18, 2026. https://mises.at/en/orte/freiburg.
- German historical style
- Freiburg, edited by mises.at and scholarium, https://mises.at/en/orte/freiburg (accessed July 18, 2026).