Artur Buchenau

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Artur Buchenau (born June 3, 1879 in Elberfeld (today Wuppertal ), † 1946 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German philosopher, teacher and lecturer.

During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1897 .

Buchenau was a representative of Neo-Kantianism and published on topics of modern philosophy (especially Nicolas Malebranche and Immanuel Kant ) as well as on educational issues. As a lecturer at the de Gruyter publishing house , he was an employee and editor of the Kantian academy edition and of Kant's posthumous opus and of Pestalozzi's works . For Felix Meiner Verlag, he worked on the edition of the works of Leibniz and Descartes .

Buchenau worked as a teacher in the Rhineland and Charlottenburg from 1909 . In 1917 he became director of the Sophienlyzeum in Berlin , and from 1919 to 1921 he was also the city school councilor of Berlin-Neukölln . In 1924 he switched to the combined Friedrichs- and Humboldt-Gymnasium as director, which he headed until 1937.

Buchenau was chairman of the Comenius Society in Berlin. Furthermore, he was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge Pythagoras zum Flammenden Stern .

literature

  • Heide Heinz (Ed.): Genii Loci Dispersi , Würzburg 1980, pp. 37-59.
  • Hans-Harald Müller: Science without a university, research without a state: the Berlin Society for German Literature (1888–1938) , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-026210-0 , p. 480.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 268.

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personal data
SURNAME Buchenau, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, teacher and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH 1946
Place of death Bad Nauheim