Leopold Flam

Who was Leopold Flam?

Leopold Flam was a Belgian philosopher. Together with Alphonse Dewaelhens, Chaïm Perelman and Rudolf Boehm, he was one of leading philosophers of Belgium from the 1960s until the 1980s.

Born in Antwerp, Flam studied social sciences, political history, philosophy and physics at the University of Ghent and obtained a PhD in history. During World War II he was imprisoned in the Dossin station in Mechelen and in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After the war he became a professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

He founded the Vlaamse vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte, later of Aurora. He became director of the magazine Geschiedenis in het onderwijs.

Flam died in Vilvoorde on 29 September 1995.