Robert Zimmer was born in
Trier,
West Germany on 25 October 1953. He was educated at the German universities of
Saarbrücken and
Düsseldorf and wrote his doctoral dissertation on
Edmund Burke. From 1986 - 2013 he lived as a freelance writer and publicist in
Berlin. In 2013 he moved to
Stuttgart. His most popular book so far has been “Das Philosophenportal”, a collection of 16 essays on 16 different classical works of philosophy, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages (not yet in English). In 2010 he published a biography of
Arthur Schopenhauer. He also translated a selection of essays by the 19th Century French critic and writer
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. Zimmer is a follower of
critical rationalism. Together with Martin Morgenstern he wrote a short and popular biography of
Karl Popper and edited the correspondence between Popper and
Hans Albert. ==Selected works==