The Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication Klaus Krippendorff has passed on. He was 90. The cause of his death is yet to be revealed.
Klaus Krippendorff was born in 1932 in Frankfurt am Main Germany. In 1954, he graduated with an engineering degree from the State Engineering School in Hannover.
In 1961, he graduated as a diploma designer from the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), Germany. And in 1967, he received his Ph.D. in communications from the pioneering Institute for Communication Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1998, graduate students named him as the teacher of the best doctoral course taken at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, he became the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication.
In 2012, Linnaeus University in Kalmar/Växjö, Sweden, awarded him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa.