Leo Rauch (1927 Berlin, Germany â 1997 Massachusetts) was a German-American philosopher, commentator on continental philosophy (mainly Plato, Kant and Hegel), translator of the writings of G. W. F. Hegel into English.
He received his doctorate in philosophy from New York University in 1968 with a dissertation on Intentionality and Its Development in the Phenomenological Psychology of Edmund Husserl. Over the following years, he was affiliated with Ohio State University, the Universities of Texas and Cincinnati, and the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. Most recently, he worked in the Department of Philosophy at Babson College in Massachusetts.
His wife was Gila Ramras-Rauch (1933âÂÂ2005), a lecturer in Hebrew language and Jewish and Holocaust literature at Boston's Hebrew College and winner of the Israeli State Prize in Literature in 1983.