Walter Jaeschke

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Walter Jaeschke (born September 20, 1945 in Amberg ) is a German philosopher and university professor. As a specialist in classical German philosophy, he heads the editions of the Academy edition by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Hegel archive at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

Jaeschke completed a degree in philosophy, religious history and sinology at the Free University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1976 with the dissertation The search for the eschatological roots of the philosophy of history. A historical critique of the secularization thesis at the Free University of Berlin. The habilitation took place a decade later at the Ruhr University Bochum with the study Reason in Religion. Studies on the foundation of Hegel's philosophy of religion (Stuttgart 1986).

Jaeschke was a research assistant at the Hegel Archive at the Ruhr University from 1974 to 1989 and a research assistant at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1989 to 1998 as well as an adjunct professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. From 1998 until his retirement in 2010 he worked as a professor of philosophy with a special focus on German idealism at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and as director of the local Hegel archive, where the critical edition of Hegel's works is being prepared. In 2014 he was elected a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

Publications (selection)

  • with Andreas Arndt: The classical German philosophy according to Kant: Systems of pure reason and its criticism; 1785 - 1845 , Munich: Beck 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63046-0 .
  • together with Kurt Bayertz and Myriam Gerhard (eds.): The Ignorabimus dispute . Felix Meiner, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7873-2158-2 .
  • As editor and editor of editions:
    • Hegel: Collected Works. Published by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1968ff.
    • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: works. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1998ff. (together with Klaus Hammacher, Aachen)
    • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Correspondence - Estate - Documents. Founded by Michael Brüggen and Siegfried Sudhof. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981ff. (since 2013 together with Birgit Sandkaulen, Bochum)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts accepts 17 new members. Press release from May 22nd, 2014 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de)
  2. ↑ Essence issues in FAZ from January 4, 2013, page 32
personal data
SURNAME Jaeschke, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain