Alexander Guttmann

Edward K. Kaplan bemerkt: „Above all, Heschel admired the scholar, rabbi, and philosopher Leo Baeck, the Hochschule's most prominent teacher. Heschel declared that Baeck was 'the most educated man' he had ever met. [...] Although Heschel did not assent to Baeck's rationalism, through him Heschel continued to draw upon the legacy of Dilthey, Baeck's professor at the University of Berlin, in maintaining a passionate interest in a variety of cultural manifestations.“

Edward K. Kaplan bemerkt: „Heschel and [Julius] Guttmann [...] had several intellectual affinities in common. For one, Heschel shared Guttmann's neo-Kantian belief in a priori cognitive categories, for Heschel possessed a ‚certainty‘ about the living God. Guttmann's serious consideration of phenomenology also reinforced Heschel's work with [Max] Dessoir [at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität]. On a personal level, Heschel and Guttmann often took walks together, and Heschel, along with other students, enjoyed visiting Guttmann and his wife, Grete, on Sabbath afternoons. Guttmann may have also influenced Heschel to choose a university thesis in philosophy based on interpreting the Hebrew Bible.“

Heschel wurde von Alexander Guttmann ordiniert.