Richard Schaefer Translator & Author

Richard Schaefer is a professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. Trained in modern European intellectual history, Schaefer received the B.A. from St. Jerome’s College (University of Waterloo), and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has written extensively on various aspects of Catholic intellectual history in the 19th century, and on the history of philosophy. Most recently, he published a translation of Franz Brentano’s The Teaching of Jesus and its Enduring Significance. He is currently working on a book on the German Revolution of 1918, titled At War with Ourselves: The Lost Worlds of Eugen Rosenstock, Rosa Luxemburg, Hermann Hesse and Käthe Kollwitz.