Peter Bieri

Peter Bieri studied at University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University and Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is philosophy and literary activity. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin and Marburg. Employment is recorded with Freie Universität Berlin and University of Marburg. Works named in the authority record are Night Train to Lisbon. Distinctions recorded are Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize, Tractatus Award and honorary doctor of the University of Lucerne.

• Name — Peter Bieri • Pen Name — Pascal Mercier • Born — 23 June 1944 • Birthplace — Bern, Switzerland • Died — 27 June 2023 • Place of death — Berlin, Germany • Occupation — Writer, philosopher • Education — Heidelberg University

Bieri studied philosophy, English studies and Indian studies in both London and Heidelberg. He took his doctoral degree in Heidelberg in 1971 after studies with Dieter Henrich and Ernst Tugendhat on the philosophy of time, with reference to the work of J. M. E. McTaggart. After the conferral of his doctorate, Bieri followed an academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. In 1983 he started work at the University of Bielefeld and later he worked as a scientific assistant at the Philosophical Seminar at University of Heidelberg. Bieri co-founded the research unit for Cognition and Brain studies at the German Research Foundation. The focuses of his research were the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics. From 1990 to 1993, he was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Marburg; from 1993 he taught philosophy at the Free University of Berlin while holding the chair of analytic philosophy, succeeding his mentor, Ernst Tugendhat. In 2007 he retired early, disillusioned by academic life and condemning what he saw as the rise of managerialism ("Eine Diktatur der Geschäftigkeit") and decline in respect for academic work.

Bieri died on 27 June 2023 in Berlin, at the age of 79.

• Pascal Mercier: Perlmanns Schweigen, English Perlmann's Silence. Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1995. • Pascal Mercier: Der Klavierstimmer. Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1998. • Pascal Mercier: Nachtzug nach Lissabon, English Night Train to Lisbon. Hanser, Munich 2004., English • Pascal Mercier: Lea (Novelle). Hanser, Munich 2007., English • Pascal Mercier: Das Gewicht der Worte. Hanser, Munich 2020.