Rodolfo Mondolfo

Rodolfo Mondolfo ( born August 20, 1877 in Senigallia, † 15 July 1976 Buenos Aires ) was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Mondolfo studied at the University of Florence in Felice Tocco and Pasquale Villari. Since 1914 he was Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Bologna. With the introduction of racial laws in Fascist Italy in 1938 Mondolfo was forced because of his Jewish origin, to leave the country and emigrated to Argentina, where he first taught at the University of Córdoba and then at the University of Tucumán.

Mondolfo left an extensive and diverse body of work. He has worked among others with the positivism of Roberto Ardigò, with problems of social philosophy and Marxism, as well as the history of philosophy and its method.