Aloys Müller (philosopher)

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Aloys Müller (born July 11, 1879 in Euskirchen ; † December 4, 1952 in Buschdorf near Bonn ) was a Catholic pastor and professor at the University of Bonn . His scientific work moved in the field of tension between philosophy, psychology as well as mathematics and physics.

Life

Müller's parents were the engineer Theodor Müller and Adelheide, geb. Fassbender. You were catholic. After attending the Progymnasium in Euskirchen and the Humanist Gymnasium in Münstereifel (Abitur 1899), he studied Catholic theology at the University of Bonn from 1899 to 1903 , supplemented by studies in philosophy, psychology, mathematics and physics. He was a member of the student union of Catholic theologians Rhenofrankonia . Müller was ordained a priest in 1903 and installed as a chaplain at the Trinity Church in Düsseldorf . In 1908 he resumed studying mathematics, philosophy, physics and psychology in Bonn; In 1913 he did his doctorate under Adolf Dyroff on the subject of truth and reality: Investigations into the realistic problem of truth .

Since 1911 Müller was active in the school service and as a pastor. From 1921 he was pastor in Buschdorf near Bonn. In the same year he submitted his habilitation thesis ( The subject of mathematics with special reference to the theory of relativity ), which was favorably examined by Dyroff and Gustav Wilhelm Störring . After initially receiving a teaching position for philosophy of mathematics and exact natural sciences, he was appointed extraordinary professor at Bonn University in 1927 . As a pastor, he distanced himself from the National Socialist regime and therefore lost his teaching license in 1939. Only after the war, on October 31, 1946, was he given an unscheduled professorship in Bonn.

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Müller was interested in the connections between psychology, philosophy and the exact natural sciences. Einstein's theory of relativity occupied him early on from a philosophical perspective. His Introduction to Philosophy has been translated into several languages. In a work on psychology ( attempt at a phenomenological theory of the psychic ) he developed a phenomenology of the physical, referring to Carl Stumpf , Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl . In contrast to classical phenomenology, instead of describing metaphysical occurrences, he tries to find a scientific foundation for the physical.

Müller stood in the ecclesiastical conflict of the Nazi years against neo-scholasticism . He, the scientist, defended his understanding of scientific autonomy against her. In addition, he turned against every form of materialistic conception of the state, as represented in his eyes volkish concepts or liberalism.

The Bonn university professor Jakob Barion paid tribute to the philosopher Müller on the occasion of the publication of the "Writings on Philosophy", Volume I by Cornel J. Bock at Bouvier Verlag in 1967. In 2006, the Aloys-Müller-Weg was named after him in Buschdorf .

Publications (selection)

  • The problem of absolute space and its relation to the general problem of space , F. Vieweg & Sohn , Braunschweig 1911
  • Theory of tidal forces , F. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1916
  • The reference surfaces of the heavens and the stars , F. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1918
  • The philosophical problems of Einstein's theory of relativity: Lectures to d. University of Bonn , in: The problem of absolute space , F. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1922
  • Introduction to philosophy , Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin and Bonn 1925, from the 3rd edition as: World and people in their unreal structure: Basic features of philosophy , Dümmler, Bonn 1947
  • Psychology: attempt of a phenomenological theory of the psychic , Dümmler, Berlin 1927
  • The position of man in the cosmos , Bouvier , Bonn 1941

References and comments

  1. ^ Website of the student association of Catholic theologians Rhenofrankonia
  2. ↑ Aloys Müller, Schriften zur Philosophie , Bouvier, 1967, p. 450
  3. ^ A b Christian Tilitzki , The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , ISBN 978-3-05007-9-813 , Walter de Gruyter , 2002, pp. 158f.
  4. ↑ so in Spanish: Psicologia: Ensayo de una teoria fenomenológica de lo spiquico , Revista de Occidente, Madrid 1933
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Hefte , Volume 24, Neue Verlagsgesellschaft der Frankfurter Hefte, 1969, p. 133
  6. ↑ Eva Siebenherz, What was the street called earlier? , ISBN 978-3-7380-2-0342 , Neobooks Self-Publishing, 2015
  7. ↑ Buschtrommel , organ of the CDU Bonn, local association Buschdorf, August 2016, p. 3

literature

  • Uwe Wolfradt, Müller, Aloys , in: Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha and Armin Stock, German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945: An encyclopedia of people, supplemented by a text by Erich Stern , ISBN 978-3-65801-4-810 , Springer-Verlag , 2014, p. 331
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Euskirchen
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1952
Place of death Buschdorf near Bonn