Arnold Kowalewski

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Arnold Christian Felix Kowalewski (born November 27, 1873 in Sallewen , Osterode district in East Prussia , † 1945 in Kirchhain-Doberlug ) was an associate professor of philosophy in Königsberg .

Life

Kowalewski's parents were the teacher and Prussian school councilor Leonhard Julius Kowalewski († 1929) and Maria, geb. Pommerening († 1926). His brother was the mathematician Gerhard Kowalewski . After attending grammar school in Graudenz , he studied philosophy, physics, mathematics and philology in Jena, Berlin, Königsberg and Greifswald. In 1897 he received his doctorate under Günther Thiele (1841-1910) on the subject of critical analysis of Arthur Collier's Clavis universalis. The following year, Kowalewski went to Leipzig to study with Wilhelm Wundt to study experimental psychology. Then he wrote a critique of neo-Kantian Scripture Prodomos a critique of epistemological reason, which is the basis of his Habilitation in 1899, in Königsberg. As a result, he tried to establish Arthur Schopenhauer's metaphysics based on experimental psychology. In the course of time he developed a critical position on Schopenhauer and approached the fictionalism of Hans Vaihinger . In 1906 he was a substitute professor in Breslau.

Kowalewski was a participant in the First World War . After the war he became a member of the Free Conservative Party . In 1920 Kowalewski received a teaching position for the philosophy of religion , with which he dealt increasingly in the following years . Issues of ethics and the social situation came to the fore as topics. In 1921 he became a non-official ao. Appointed professor. In addition, he was temporarily chairman of the Königsberg local association of the Kant Society founded by Vaihinger and contributed to Kant research with smaller philological works, including the publication of Count Heinrich zu Dohna-Wundlacken's newly found notebooks in 1924 . In addition, he dealt with combinatorics and color order systems .

Kowalewski became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association on June 1, 1933 (Member No. 241,500), from which he resigned on May 15, 1939. From 1933 he was also a member of the Bund Deutscher Osten . In 1934, at Vaihinger's instigation, he received a teaching position for East Prussian intellectual history. Even after reaching the age limit, he continued his teaching until shortly before the end of the Second World War. At the beginning of 1945, Kowalewski and his family moved to Kirchhain-Doberlug to make friends before the Russian occupation of Königsberg.

Part of Kowalewski's library is kept at the German Literature Archive in Marbach . Another part is in the Kant archive of the University of Marburg .

Fonts

  • Critical analysis of Arthur Collier's Clavis universalis, 1897.
  • Prodomos of a Critique of Epistemological Reason, 1898
  • Studies in the Psychology of Pessimism, 1904
  • Moltke as a philosopher, 1905
  • Arthur Schopenhauer and his worldview, 1908
  • Approaches to fictionalism in Schopenhauer, 1919
  • The main philosophical lectures of Immanuel Kant. According to the found notebooks of Count Heinrich zu Dohna-Wundlacken, 1924
  • Harmony of Moral Values, 1930
  • What I owe to Schopenhauer. In: Yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society. Volume 25, 1938, pp. 42-60
posthumously
  • Concept and meaning of the immanent philosophy. Inaugural lecture at the Albertus University in Königsberg held on March 6, 1899. Ed. By Sabina Laetitia Kowalewski, Angela Hackbarth, St. Georgen / Schwarzwald 1998
  • Philosophical essays. Rudolf Eucken's Schopenhauer view. About the value of the Schopenhauer system. Edited by Sabina Laetitia Kowalewski, Angela Hackbarth, St. Georgen / Schwarzwald 1998
  • The meaning of the Kantian philosophy. Edited by Sabina Laetitia Kowalewski, Angela Hackbarth, St. Georgen / Schwarzwald 1998
  • Spengler's criticism of Kant. Edited by Sabina Laetitia Kowalewski, Angela Hackbarth, St. Georgen / Schwarzwald 1998
  • Königsberg lectures 1925–1927. Edited by Sabina Laetitia Kowalewski, Olms, Hildesheim 1999

literature

  • Gerhard Kowalewski : Existence and Change. My memories. At the same time a contribution to the recent history of mathematics. Oldenbourg, Munich 1950.
  • Waltraud Voss : Arnold Kowalewski - an interdisciplinary scientist. In: Michael Toepell (Hrsg.): Mathematik im Wandel. Suggestions for interdisciplinary math lessons. Volume 2. Franzbecker, Hildesheim a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-88120-342-7 , pp. 426-451 (history of mathematics and teaching 3).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information largely based on Christian Tilitzki: The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Akademie, Berlin 2002, pp. 67-69
  2. ↑ Arthur Collier (1680-1732) was an Oxford-trained priest of the Anglican Church and philosopher. Writings under the title Clavis universalis date from 1712 and 1713.
personal data
SURNAME Kowalewski, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kowalewski, Arnold Christian Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Sallewen , Osterode district in East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Doberlug-Kirchhain