Alois Höfler
Alois Höfler (born April 6, 1853 in Kirchdorf an der Krems , Upper Austria ; † February 26, 1922 in Vienna ) was an Austrian philosopher and university professor of education in Prague and Vienna.
Life
Alois Höfler studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna , a. a. with Ludwig Boltzmann . After the teaching examination in 1876, he taught at the grammar school of the Theresian Academy . In 1879 he passed the additional teaching examination for philosophical propaedeutics . He particularly valued Alexius Meinong in Graz , for whom he wrote a dissertation on Some Laws of Incompatibility Between Judgments .
In addition to his school activities, he was a lecturer at the University of Vienna. During this time he worked closely with Franz Brentano . In 1895 he completed his habilitation. His research and teaching focused on logic and psychology as well as didactics of physics and mathematics lessons.
Höfler became Professor of Education in Prague in 1903 (as successor to Otto Willmann ) and in Vienna in 1907 (as successor to Theodor Vogt ). He continued to pursue his broad philosophical and scientific interests; his slogan was: "I will remain a philosopher". He only published school policy statements on pedagogy, in which he rejected the unified school advocated by socialists and advocated maintaining the old-language humanistic grammar school. He polemicized against the conditions of the Viennese school system. One of his students, Richard Meister , later became his chair successor.
He was in close contact with Marian Smoluchowski , Friedrich Hasenöhrl , Adalbert Meingast , and Walther Schmied-Kowarzik .
In 1916 he was elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna .
In 1940 the Alois-Höfler-Gasse in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) was named after him.
Major works
philosophy
- with Alexius Meinong : Philosophical Propaedeutics. First part: logic. F. Tempsky / G. Freytag, Vienna 1890.
- Mental work. In: Journal of Psychology and Physiology of the Sensory Organs. 8, 1895, pp. 44-103 and 161-230.
- The independent realities. In: Kant studies. 12, 1907, pp. 361-392.
- Works by Bernard Bolzano. Felix Meiner, Leipzig 1914.
- with Hans Hahn : Bernard Bolzano . Infinite paradoxes. Felix Meiner, Leipzig 1921.
pedagogy
- Three lectures on secondary school reform. 1908.
- The whole of the school reform in Austria. Samples and Outlook. 1918.
literature
- Courtier Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 353.
- Waltraud Reichert: Höfler, Alois. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 312 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Alois Höfler in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ For his training and activities as a teacher, see Wolfgang Brezinka : History of the subject of pedagogy at the University of Vienna from 1805 to 1956. In: Mitteilungen der Österreichische Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 15, 1995, pp. 67–78, there 69.
- ↑ For his work as a university professor, see Brezinka: Pädagogik an der Universität Wien , 1995, pp. 69f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Höfler, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchdorf an der Krems |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1922 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |