User:RichterUndDenker/Jochen Kirchhoff (Philosopher)

Jochen Kirchhoff (* August 2, 1944 in Torgau) is a German author with a focus on natural philosophy. He has written monographs on Giordano Bruno, Schelling and Copernicus.

Life
After earning the german Abitur in 1963, Jochen Kirchhoff went on to study history, philosophy and German literature in Erlangen and Berlin. After several years in the teaching profession, he worked as a lecturer at the Lessing Academy of Berlin, among others. From 1991 to 2002, inspired by Rudolf Bahro, he taught natural philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Kirchhoff turns against mainstream natural science. He has dealt with the insights of of Giordano Bruno in several publications. In his 1999 book Räume, Dimensionen, Weltmodelle. Impulse für eine andere Naturwissenschaft, he describes the possible effects of Bruno's world model on modern cosmology. Kirchhoff represents an approach which is called "deep ecology".

Besides books, he wrote articles and essays in magazines like Sterne und Weltraum, Der Spiegel, raum & zeit aswell as in the Annual Aufgang.