Which academic positions did Karl Jaspers hold at the University of Heidelberg?

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Karl Jaspers held several academic positions at the University of Heidelberg as he transitioned from medicine to philosophy. His appointments within the university's philosophical faculty included:1

1916: Assistant professor in psychology1
1920: Assistant professor in philosophy1
1921: Professor in philosophy1
1922: Appointed to the second chair in philosophy1

Following the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, Jaspers was eventually removed from his professorship due to his wife’s Jewish heritage and his refusal to conform to National Socialist doctrines.2