Background
He was born in Bozen (Bolzano) in the Austrian Empire (now in Italy).
Historian of philosophy Neo-Kantian
He was born in Bozen (Bolzano) in the Austrian Empire (now in Italy).
Philosophy at Vienna. Munich, Graz and Innsbruck.
The brother of Josef Riehl, he was a Neo-Kantian and worked as a full professor of philosophy at Graz from 1878, then at Freiburg (from 1882 as a replacement for Wilhelm Windelband), and finally in Berlin, where he commissioned Mies van der Rohe to design his house in Neubabelsberg. Foreign Riehl, philosophy was not the teaching of Weltanschauung, but principally a criticism of perception. Riehl died in Neubabelsberg, near Potsdam, and was buried in the Alter Friedhof in Klein-Glienicke.
Riehl viewed Kant as continuing the approach of Locke. Berkeley and Hume. His position may be characterized as an attempt to mediate between positivism and Kantian criticism. He advocated a realistic interpretation of Kant’s thing in itself, arguing that it must be understood as an attempt to capture the ‘given-ness’ of things that is always bound up with experience. Riehl had a great influence on his student Richard Honigswald, who, in opposition to the Marburg neo-Kantians, continued the realistic interpretation of Kant.