Leopold Flam

Leopold Flam was born in Antwerp in 1912 and died in Jette in 1995. The child of Jewish parents who had emigrated from Lublin to Belgium, and who could neither read nor write, he succeeded in becoming  a professor, philosopher and essayist. As an existentialist he was a strongly independent thinker and one of the most prominent of Belgian philosophers from the late fifties to the mid-eighties. He also had a certain amount of influence in the Netherlands and France.