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August Vetter (born February 19, 1887 in Elberfeld , † October 15, 1976 in Ammerland ) was a German scientist. He was a professor of psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Vetter was born in 1887 as the oldest of nine children. Due to the early death of his mother, he could not afford a higher education and instead attended the arts and crafts school in Elberfeld, where he trained as a graphic artist and draftsman. For the next few years he earned his living through artistic activities. In 1912 he was admitted to the University of Munich, where he studied philosophy and psychology. He also financed his studies by working in his apprenticeship. One year after the start of his studies, his first work, Die demonische Zeit, was published by Diederichs Verlag.

Act

In 1926, Vetter published a book on Friedrich Nietzsche in the history of philosophy in individual representations , which was edited by Gustav Kafka . After a publication about Søren Kierkegaard two years later, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden in 1930. Kafka then offered him to work in his institute, where his cousin Philipp Lersch met. In 1933 Vetter published another work on the commitment to the Christian era and its claim to uniqueness, before he was dismissed for political reasons that same year.

Through Felix Krüger Vetter got an assistant position in Leipzig in 1934, where he worked with Ehrig Wartegg (1897–1983), Albert Wellek and Johannes Rudert (1894–1980). But here, too, he had to vacate his position in 1939. He tried to do his habilitation with the work The Interpretation of Experience of Fantasy , but never got an answer to his request. Through his friend, psychiatrist Hans von Hattingberg , Vetter got a teaching position at the Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Berlin. From 1940 to 1944 he also worked as a consultant for IG Farben , where he campaigned for the further development of psychological aptitude tests for plant managers and for advisory courses. After the end of the war he was appointed honorary professor for psychology at the University of Munich. Vetter was appointed full professor emeritus in 1962 by decision of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in reparation proceedings.

His last publication, The Sign Language of Writing and Dream, followed in 1972 . After his death in 1976, a year later, a new edition was posthumously published in his book Critique of Sentiment , which had already been published in 1923. Vetter completely revised it in his final years.

Publications

  • Criticism of feeling . Prien: Kampmann & Schnabel 1923. 2nd completely revised edition. Munich, Paderborn, Vienna: Schöningh 1977. ISBN 3-506-70186-X
  • Nietzsche . Munich: Reinhardt 1926 (in G. KAFKA: Gesch. Phil. Einzelarst., Bd. 37)
  • Piety as passion . An interpretation of Kierkegaard. Leipzig: Insel 1928. 2nd edition, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich: Karl Alber 1963
  • Middle of time. The historicity of the spirit in the light of God's incarnation . Kampen: Kampmann, 1933. 2nd edition Freiburg i. Br. / Munich: Karl Alber 1962
  • Nature and person. Outline of an anthropognomic . Stuttgart: Klett 1949
  • The meaning of the experience of the imagination . Stuttgart: Klett 1950
  • Reality of the human. Life questions of our time . Freiburg i. Br. / Munich: Karl Alber 1960
  • Personal anthropology. Outline of the human structure . Freiburg i. Br. / Munich: Karl Alber 1966
  • The sign language of writing and dreams. Introduction to anthropological diagnostics . Freiburg i. Br. / Munich: Karl Alber 1970. ISBN 3-495-47180-4

Festschrift

  • Reality in the middle. Contributions to a structural anthropology. Celebration for August Vetter on his 80th birthday . Edited by Johannes Tenzler. Freiburg i. Br. / Munich: Karl Alber 1968

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personal data
SURNAME Cousin, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1976
Place of death Ammerland