Julian Nida-Rümelin

Julian Nida-Rümelin is the kind of public intellectual I genuinely admire: a philosopher who refused to stay safely inside the seminar room. Serving as Germany's State Minister for Culture under Schröder meant testing abstract ideas against the grind of real politics, which takes a particular kind of nerve. As vice chairman of the German Ethics Council, he asks what it means to be human at exactly the moment technology keeps blurring that line. Even the ironic BigBrotherAward feels telling, here is someone willing to provoke. In an age that prizes loud certainty, his patient, principled questioning strikes me as quietly essential.

Name (English)

Julian Nida-Rümelin

Name (Japanese)

ユリアン・ニーダ・リューメリン

Reading

ゆりあん・にーだ・りゅーめりん

Born

November 28, 1954 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Horse

Origin

Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany

Occupation

philosopher / university teacher / politician / German Minister of State

University

University of Tübingen

Awards & achievements

• Bavarian Order of Merit
• honorary doctor of the University of Trier
• 2021 BigBrotherAwards

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/Nida_Ruemelin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Upper Bavaria
• philosopher
• university teacher
• politician

Last updated

2026-06-02

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