Richard Kroner (; 8 March 1884, Breslau – 2 November 1974, Mammern) was a German neo-Hegelian philosopher, known for his Von Kant bis Hegel (2 vols., 1921–1924), a history of German idealism written from a neo-Hegelian point of view.
He was a Christian, from a Jewish background. He is known for his formulation of Hegel as 'the Protestant Aquinas'.
Biography
Kroner earned his doctorate at the University of Freiburg under Heinrich Rickert in 1908.
In 1924, Victor Klemperer supported a call for Kroner to a new chair for theoretical pedagogics and philosophy at Technische Hochschule Dresden, where he became friends with Paul Tillich. He was replaced briefly by Hans-Georg Gadamer, a personal friend.<blockquote>Kroner's ideas on Hegel, including his slant via Kierkegaard, were taken up by some existentialist thinkers, including Lev Shestov and Nikolai Berdyaev. before moving to Switzerland. He was awarded the Große Bundesverdienstkreuz.