Anselm Ruest
Anselm Ruest (born August 24, 1878 as Ernst Samuel in Kulm ; † November 18, 1943 in Carpentras ) was a German publicist , philologist and philosopher .
Life
Ernst Samuel was the son of a cantor and religion teacher in Kulm in West Prussia . His older brother was the first rabbi of the Essen Jewish community , Salomon Samuel . As an author and publicist, Ernst Samuel chose an anagram of his name as his pseudonym : Anselm Ruest .
He studied theology, oriental languages, philosophy, history and literature in Berlin and Würzburg from 1897 to 1905, and received his doctorate in 1905.
With the rise of National Socialism, he emigrated to France in 1933, where he was interned several times from 1939 . Released in 1941, he died in 1943 after a serious illness in exile in southern France.
Services
Anselms Ruest's first major work was a monograph on Max Stirner (1906), supplemented by a Stirner breviary that he had compiled . Anselm Ruest has published some classic works. Clemens Brentanos Godwi (1906) is one of them, as is Eckermann's conversations with Goethe (1907) or a Jean-Paul anthology (1912). In 1911, Ruest co-founded Franz Pfemfert's magazine Die Aktion . From 1919 to 1925 he was editor of the informal magazine of the Stirnerbund, Der Einzige , in the first year together with “Mynona” . A rich correspondence with the greats of his time can be read from the archives. Including Johannes Baader , André Gide , Alfred Kerr , Rudolf Leonhard , André Malraux , Heinrich Mann , Paul Westheim and Paul Zech .
Publications
- Max Stirner. Life - Worldview - Legacy. Hermann Seemann Nachf., Berlin a. Leipzig 1906
- (Ed. :) Stirner Breviary. The strength of the lonely. Hermann Seemann Nachf., Berlin a. Leipzig 1906
- (Ed. :) Johann Peter Eckermann: Conversations with Goethe: in the last years of his life. Hermann Seemann Nachf., Berlin a. Leipzig 1907.
- Apollodorus: About poetry . Knorr, Berlin, 1913
- Junkers Schelmuffsky's truly curious and very dangerous travelogue on water and on land . Schneider, Berlin, 1920
- To the real individual. Prolegomena to personalism. From the estate, ed. by Hartmut Geerken . Aisthesis, Bielefeld, 2004, ISBN 3-89528-374-6
literature
- Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-05-003647-2 , pp. 709 f.
- Dirk Heißerer : Disappearance and Remember. In the footsteps of Anselm Ruest and Salomo Friedlaender / Mynona . In: Detlef Thiel , Hartmut Geerken (Ed.): Romp around, my audience! (= Volume 3 by Friedlaender / Mynona Studies ) - Books on Demand GmbH (Norderstedt), Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 9783739237008 , pp. 195–225.
Web links
- Anselm Ruest archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Most of the data on Ruest's biography come from the discoverer of his estate, Hartmut Geerken . B. in his publication of Ruests "To the real individual. Prolegomena to personalism" from 2004; The historical study by Tilitzki (2002) also provides insights, especially into the Weimar period.
- ↑ There are documents in the Federal Archives, in the German Literature Archives in Marbach and in the Archives of the Berlin Academy of the Arts.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruest, Anselm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Samuel, Ernst (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist, philologist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1943 |
| Place of death | Carpentras |