Background
Fischer was born in Furth im Wald, Bavaria on 10 April 1880.
educationist philosopher psychologist sociologist
Fischer was born in Furth im Wald, Bavaria on 10 April 1880.
He attended the local elementary school. He finished there 1899 and then attended the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich studying Classical Philology, German and history.
In 1891 he was awarded a scholarship to the grammar school based at the Benedictine Metten Abbey. After passing the First State Exam in 1902 he studied for a doctorate under Theodor Lipps. From 1903 to 1906 Fischer tutored the children of Adolf von Hildebrand.
His dissertation On symbolic Relations, was rewarded with aprize from the Faculty of Arts.
He was part of the team which produced Gesellschafts und Wirtschafts (1930) with Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz and others at the Gesellschaftsund Wirtschaftsmuseum in Vienna.