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1874 – 1945Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945)Died 13 April 1945, aged 70Cassirer was a German-Jewish philosopher known for his work on symbolic forms, epistemology, and the philosophy of the Enlightenment. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and taught in exile in Britain, Sweden, and the United States. He died of a heart attack in New York shortly before the war's end.