Bernhard Münz (philosopher)

Bernhard Münz (born February 1, 1856 in Leipnik , Austrian Empire ; died December 17, 1919 in Vienna ) was an Austrian philosopher and librarian.

Life

Bernhard Münz was a son of the businessman Jakob Münz and Johanna Weinreb, his younger brother was the journalist Sigmund Münz , the journalist Bernhard Münz (1857-1921) was a relative.

From 1873, Münz studied classical philology and philosophy at the University of Vienna , the University of Innsbruck and the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1877 under Franz Brentano in Vienna. He worked at the University Library in Graz and in 1888 married Amalie Müller, a daughter of the Hebraist Joel Müller . Münz came to the library of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna in 1889 as an amanuensis . From 1903 he headed the library, succeeding Samuel Hammerschlag . Münz wrote magazine articles, including for East and West and the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums . He promoted Salomon Wininger's plan to compile a Jewish national biography and was a member of the editorial team from 1915, the first volume appeared in 1925.

Fonts (selection)

Jakob Frohschammer Letters (1897)

• The seeds of epistemology in the pre-philistine period of Greek philosophy . Hall: Niemeyer, 1880
• The theory of knowledge and sensation of Protagoras . Hall: Niemeyer, 1880
• Life and World Questions: Philosophical Essais . Vienna: Konegen, 1886
• Jakob Frohschammer , the philosopher of world fantasy . Essay. Breslau: Schottlaender, 1894
• (Ed.): Letters from and about Jakob Frohschammer . Leipzig: Georg Heinrich Meyer, 1897
• Adolf Pichler . Leipzig: Baum, 1899
• Moriz Lazarus : To celebrate his fifty year. Doctor jubilee Nov. 30, 1899 . Berlin: Dümmler, 1900
• Marie Eugenie delle Grazie as a poet and thinker . Vienna: Braumüller, 1902
• Literary physiognomies . Vienna: Braumüller, 1903
• Goethe as an educator . Vienna: Braumüller, 1904
• Friedrich Hebbel as a thinker . Munich: Müller, 1906
• Ibsen as an educator . 1908
• Shakespeare as a philosopher . Halle: Niemeyer, 1918

literature

• Münz, Bernhard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975,ISBN 3-7001-0128-7, p. 436 f. (Direct links on p. 436 , p. 437 ).
• Münz, Bernhard , in: Renate Heuer : Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Volume 17, Munich: De Gruyter, pp. 223–227
• Münz, Bernhard , in: Handbook of Austrian Authors of Jewish Origin, 18th to 20th Century , p. 956

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Münz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Bernhard Münz (philosopher) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Bernhard Münz , at history wiki wien