Artur von Fragstein

Artur von Fragstein (born July 18, 1905 in Breslau ; † after 1994) was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy who dealt with ancient philosophy.

The son of the private teacher Konstantin von Fragstein and his wife Maria attended elementary school from 1911 to 1919. In addition, he received private tuition to prepare for the Abitur. First he learned the profession of elementary school teacher from 1919 to 1925. Then he studied classical philology and archeology in Breslau and received his doctorate in 1931 under Josef Kroll and Ludolf Malten on Isidor of Seville and the Scholia of Germanicus . He joined the NSDAP in 1933 and worked as a Landjahrführer . He did not find a job until 1937 at the College for Teacher Training in Dortmund as a lecturer in philosophy and education. His 1937 essay shows significant similarities with Nazi ideology. During the war he was drafted, but stayed at the Dortmund Teachers' Training College . After 1945 he became a teacher at a Dortmund high school in Aplerbeck until he retired in 1967. He was also at the academic examination office in Münster / W. active.

In 1967 he put a extensive study of logic , to diairesis of Aristotle before, the general in professional circles attention was. The Dihairesis method was always used by Aristotle into the late period.

His interpretation of the ethics of Aristotle 1974 refers primarily to the Eudemian ethics , is a commentary on this work.

Fonts

• Isidore of Seville and the so-called Germanicus scholien. Eschenhagen, Breslau 1931 (= dissertation).
• Didactic demands on National Socialist school practice. In: German School. Volume 41, 1937, pp. 489-493 ( online ).
• Cicero, per Murena 1-2. In: Gymnasium. Volume 67, Issue 2, 1960, pp. 191-193 ( online ).
• The diairesis in Aristotle . Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1967.
• Studies on the ethics of Aristotle. Grüner, Amsterdam 1974, ISBN 978-90-6032-006-8 ( limited preview in Google book search).

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 283–284 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Wolfgang Schneider: O usia and Eudaimonia: The interweaving of metaphysics and ethics in Aristotle. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-016901-0 .