Alma von Stockhausen

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Alma Luise Florentine Elisabeth von Stockhausen (born September 30, 1927 in the Nesselroder Hof in Münster in Westphalia; † May 4, 2020 in Heroldsbach ) was a German philosopher and founder of the Gustav Siewerth Academy .

Life

Alma von Stockhausen was the daughter of the lawyer and historian Franz Eduard von Stockhausen (1903–1952) from the Westphalian noble family Stockhausen and Elisabeth Countess von Bernstorff (1899–1994). Six children resulted from the marriage, including the brothers Franz-Armin (1930-2013) and Dietrich (* 1942), both Catholic priests.

From 1946 she studied philosophy , Catholic theology and history at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1954 she was at Max Müller with a thesis on Analogia entis at Thomas Aquinas at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg doctorate . In 1962 she completed her habilitation in Freiburg. She was a student of the philosopher Gustav Siewerth and also regarded Martin Heidegger and Nicolai Hartmann as her teachers.

From 1962 Alma von Stockhausen taught as a professor of philosophy at the Freiburg University of Education . In 1988 she founded the Gustav Siewerth Academy with the support of Joseph Ratzinger .

She last lived in the Franconian pilgrimage town of Heroldsbach, where her brother works as a priest. There she died in May 2020 at the age of 92 from complications from cancer .

Act

The Gustav Siewerth Academy should Stockhausen which, according to Marxism and the Church hostility '68 counteract. The Christian faith should be defended with philosophy, but also with natural sciences, because “if one accepts the theory of evolution, one cannot reconcile it with the belief in creation. There is no basis for belief at all ”. The focus of the Gustav Siewerth Academy is in the field of philosophy and theology. A contrast between "logical" Catholic scholasticism and "Protestant scholasticism" is asserted. The latter is dialectical and cannot distinguish between good and bad. Martin Luther is considered to be the author and is therefore treated particularly critically:

“If the Lutheran concept of God expresses the most terrible dialectics, that is, the most terrible contradiction, then I have to overcome this Protestantism. And what we are doing today, that the Catholic Church adapts to the Evangelical Church, is in my eyes the downfall for the Catholic Church, the devil's worst trick. We have to overcome Protestantism - then we have overcome the roots of dialectics. "

In 1988 the Gustav Siewerth Academy was officially recognized as a privately owned academic university despite a lack of financial resources (its professors worked free of charge). In 2013 the state recognition was revoked by the Ministry of Science of the State of Baden-Württemberg, as the academy could not prove that it was a university. The academy has complained against this, and a decision by the administrative court is still pending. Stockhausen was always the prorector of the Gustav Siewerth Academy.

Alma von Stockhausen was the editor of conference volumes and commemorative publications on research on the reformer Martin Luther , for example by Theobald Beer .

Honor

Fonts (selection)

  • The analogia entis in Thomas von Aquin , Freiburg im Breisgau 1954, OCLC 73944373
  • Myth - Logos - Evolution: dialectical connection of spirit and matter , Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7751-0585-9
  • The mind in contradiction. By Luther zu Hegel , Gustav-Siewerth-Akad., Weilheim-Bierbronnen 1990, ISBN 978-3-928273-03-9
  • Philosophical remarks on the virgin motherhood of Mary. Series of publications, Volume 2 , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 1990, ISBN 3-928273-02-7
  • The incarnation of the logos - the pivot of the history of thought. Series of publications, Volume 1 , Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2007, ISBN 3-928273-01-9

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  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume 129 (2002), p. 448

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hesemann : “Surrounded by his love”. In: kath.net . May 5, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Franz-Armin von Stockhausen's obituaries. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper NOZ. September 9, 2013, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Directory of the dissertations prepared by Max Müller in Freiburg. Freiburg University Library, accessed on May 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Michael Hesemann: Professor Dr. Alma von Stockhausen turned 90: “Connection of faith and reason”. In: kirche-heute.de. November 2017, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  5. ^ Philosopher Alma von Stockhausen has died. In: The daily mail . May 4, 2020, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Heidegger or 'The Abolition of Morality'. In: kath.net. Retrieved October 26, 2019 (interview with Alma von Stockhausen).
  7. ^ Conference volumes. Gustav Siewerth Academy, accessed on October 12, 2012 . Festschriften. Gustav Siewerth Academy, accessed on October 12, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Stockhausen, Alma von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stockhausen, Alma Luise Florentine Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 2020
Place of death Heroldsbach