Antanas Maceina

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Antanas Maceina (born June 27, 1908 in Bagrène, Marijampolė district , Lithuania , † 1987 in Münster ) was a Lithuanian philosopher , educator and poet .

Live and act

Maceina studied theology , Lithuanian and German, philosophy and education in Vilkaviškis , Leuven , Freiburg im Breisgau , Strasbourg and Brussels . Doctorate in 1934, habilitation in 1935. At the beginning of the Soviet occupation in 1940, he and his family fled to Germany. When Lithuania was occupied by the Germans in 1942, he returned to his homeland. There he was dean of the philosophical faculty at the university and taught philosophy and German literature ( Rainer Maria Rilke ). 1947-1949 he headed the Catholic youth organization Ateitininkai .

In 1944 Maceina fled again to Western Europe and lived in Germany from 1949. There he taught philosophy at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg , Russian philosophy and Eastern European intellectual history at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, and Russian and Soviet philosophy as well as the philosophy of religion at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He died in Münster in 1987 and was buried in the village cemetery in Brebersdorf .

Maceina's poems are signed with the pseudonym Antony Jasmantas .

Publications in German

  • Soviet ethics and Christianity. To understand the communist man. Eckart-Verlag, Witten 1969
  • The secret of malice. Attempt of a theology of history of the adversary of Christ as an interpretation of the "story of the Antichrist" Soloviev. Herder publishing house, Freiburg i. Br. 1955
  • The folk song as an expression of the people's soul. Spirit and Character of the Lithuanian Dainas . Baltic Research Institute. Bonn 1955
  • The Grand Inquisitor. Historical-philosophical interpretation of the legend of Dostoyevsky . With a study by Wladimir Szylkarski on messianism and apocalyptic in Dostojewskij and Solowjew . Kerle Verlag, Heidelberg 1952

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No date given. because there are different information in Wikipedia.
  2. ↑ All information according to the Lithuanian Wikipedia article.
personal data
SURNAME Maceina, Antanas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian philosopher, educator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bagrène, Marijampolė County , Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH 1987
Place of death Muenster