Broder Christiansen

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Broder Christiansen ( pseudonym : Uve Jens Kruse ; born July 9, 1869 in Klixbüll , North Friesland ; † June 6, 1958 in Gauting near Munich ) was a German philosopher and linguist . He published on philosophy , art , linguistics , help in life and graphology . It has achieved importance in the philosophy of art and in teaching good German style . As a philosopher he was close to Neo-Kantianism , he belonged to the Southwest German School . His work combines philosophy with life practice. It was particularly adopted from the Russian formalism .

Life

Broder Christiansen was a son of Christian Georg Christiansen (* 1824) and Cecilia Margarethe Christiansen, nee Paulsen (* 1853). The children lost their father, a watchmaker and farmer at the same time , at an early age. “The father dies before the brittle boy can become his own. (...) Our house was one of the quietest, because our father died recently, and that is why I was particularly turned away and quiet (...) "

The young brother raved about the work in the fields. The village teacher from back town, a district of Klixbüll, Nis Albrecht Johannsen , who wrote stories, poems and plays, awakened the joy of algebra and geometry in the quiet boy. Supported by him, he was able to enter the Wilhelmschule in Deezbüll, a preparatory school for the grammar school, the predecessor of the Friedrich-Paulsen-Schule in Niebüll . Here he made friends with Benedikt Momme Nissen , himself the son of a watchmaker (and photographer ), and with Hugo Eckener at the high school in Flensburg .

Broder Christiansen: The Art of Writing. Buchenbach in Baden 1918.

Broder Christiansen studied philosophy and experimental psychology as well as literature and art in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . In 1902 he graduated as Dr. phil. in Freiburg im Breisgau with Heinrich Rickert about the judgment at Descartes . “Years of pedagogical travel followed, marriage to a Holstein woman of louder consonance.” They had children. In 1929 Broder Christiansen dedicated the face of our time to “My children and the future”. Broder Christiansen and his wife collected graphics and Gothic sculptures.

Shortly before his habilitation, a nervous condition prevented an academic career and forced this "strange man" into a hermitage for twenty years. Broder Christiansen wrote books as a private scholar in the Wiesneck settlement in Buchenbach in the Black Forest . In 1909 he published his first major work, the philosophy of art , and nine years later he published the art of writing . Economically unsecured, Broder Christiansen made a living mainly from the proceeds of his books. He was cured of his illness.

As a graphics collector, Broder Christiansen came across the line of etchings to the line of manuscripts and became a student of the graphologist (and philosopher) Ludwig Klages . Since around 1930 Broder Christiansen was connected to Elisabeth Carnap (called Eli , * 1895), the wife of the philosopher Rudolf Carnap , née Schöndube, who became his partner for decades. From then on he lived in Gauting near Munich. With her he wrote the textbook on handwriting interpretation , and together they founded and ran a graphological institute in Munich. Since then, Broder Christiansen has also taught writing in correspondence courses . Broder Christiansen honored his place of birth in 2002 by naming a street. A grandson of Broder Christiansen is the musicologist Gerd Rienäcker , born in 1939 , professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Fonts

  • The judgment with Descartes . Diss. Freiburg im Breisgau 1902. - The judgment in Descartes. A contribution to the prehistory of epistemology . Clauss and Feddersen, Hanau 1902. 107 pp.
  • Epistemology and Psychology of Knowledge . Clauss and Feddersen, Hanau 1902. 48 pp.
  • Philosophy of art . Clauss and Feddersen, Hanau 1909 (Reprint. Elibron Classics, New York 2002. ISBN 9780543633439 and ISBN 9780543633422 ) and B. Behr's Verlag Friedrich Feddersen, Berlin-Steglitz 1912. 348 S. - Filosofija iskusstva . Translation into Russian by Georgij Petrović Fedotov, edited by V. Aničkov. Saint Petersburg 1911. - Us. Di Filosofye fun Us . Translation into Yiddish. Farlag Heim, New York 1920.
Broder Christiansen: Philosophy of Art. Saint Petersburg 1911.
  • Kant criticism. 1st chapter. Critique of the Kantian epistemology . B. Behr's Verlag Friedrich Feddersen, Berlin-Steglitz 1912. 177 pp.
  • The original aesthetic phenomenon . LOGOS - International Journal for Philosophy of Culture (Ed. Georg Mehlis ), Volume II. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1912. pp. 303-315.
  • From self-confidence - 1st part: From the soul . B. Behr's Verlag Friedrich Feddersen, Berlin 1912. 87 pp.
  • The art of writing. A prose school . Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach in Baden 1918. 461 pp. - The small prose school . Felsen-Verlag, Munich around 1935. 190 pp. - A prose school . Revised edition. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1949. 264 pp. - A prose school. The art of writing . New, extended version. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1956. 368 pp.
  • I want! - I can! A school of will and personality (under a pseudonym). Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach in Baden 1918. 154 pp.
  • Art of living. A guide to the new era (under a pseudonym). Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach in Baden 1918. 117 pp.
  • The speech school (under real name and under a pseudonym). Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach-Baden 1920. 210 pp.
  • Memory school (under a pseudonym). Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach-Baden 1920. 89 pp.
  • The little book on good sleep (under a pseudonym). Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach-Baden 1920. 28 pp.
  • The Kruse day (under a pseudonym). Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach-Baden 1921. 28 pp.
  • A compass for understanding people (under a pseudonym and with Herbert von Bomsdorff-Bergen ). Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach-Baden 1922. 82 pp.
  • The brain worker (under a pseudonym and with Kurt Kauffmann). 2nd Edition. Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach-Baden 1922. 132 pp. - The Brain-Workers' Handbook . The English translated by Frederick H. Burgess and Herbert N. Casson. The Efficiency Magazine, London around 1928.
  • Ways to success . Leipzig 1929. 183 pp.
  • The face of our time . Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach in Baden 1929. 114 pp. - Het aspect van onzen tijd . Translation into Dutch by Jan van Kasteel. Van Loghum Slaterus, Arnhem 1930.
  • The art . Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach i. Br. 1930. 260 pp.
  • New foundation of graphology (with Elisabeth Carnap). Felsen-Verlag, Munich 1933. 96 p. - Textbook of handwriting interpretation. With forty-six plates as an appendix . 2nd expanded edition. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1947. 197 S. - Textbook of graphology . Revised edition. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1955. 134 pp.
  • The new god . Felsen-Verlag, Munich 1934. 176 pp.
  • The Book of Life or From the Paths of Personality. Old and new life experiences (as ed.). Wilhelm Langewische-Brandt (in the series “The Little Books of the Rose”), Ebenhausen near Munich 1935. 172 pp.
  • Free will . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1947. 64 pp.
  • Plan and live successfully . Paul List Verlag, Munich 1954. 163 pp.
  • Living wisdom of old and new times . Stuttgart 1954. 163 pp.
  • Is Rilke's epitaph really a mystery? Du , Volume 17, No. 8. Verlag Conzett & Huber, Zurich 1957.

literature

  • Ernst Pariser: Notes on the philosophy of art by Broder Christiansen . In: LOGOS - International Journal for Philosophy of Culture (Ed. Georg Mehlis), Volume II. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1912. pp. 259–261.
  • Horst-Jürgen Gerigk : Who is Broder Christiansen. Difference quality, dominant and object synthesis: three key concepts of his philosophy of art (1909) . Essay around 2007. In: Figuration der Moderne . Anthology. Verlag Winter, Heidelberg around 2007 (quoted from: Andreas Thomsen, Ed .: Wer war Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son . Verlag make a book, Neukirchen 2008).
  • Wilhelm Schäfer : The hermit of Wiesneck . Appendix to: Broder Christiansen / Uve Jens Kruse: Lebenskunst . 9th edition. Felsen-Verlag, Munich without year. Also as an attachment to others, for example to: Broder Christiansen: Die kleine Prosaschule . Felsen-Verlag, Buchenbach in Baden around 1935.
  • Andreas Thomsen (Ed.): Who was Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son . Make a book publisher, Neukirchen 2008. 90 pp. ISBN 978-3-940218-46-9 .
  • Thomas Steinfeld : I WANT, I CAN. Modern and self-optimization. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2016. ISBN 978-3-86253-085-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b horst-juergen-gerigk.de: Who is Broder Christiansen? , Accessed April 29, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Alfred Panten: Greetings , in: Andreas Thomsen (Ed.): Who was Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son.
  3. ^ Andreas Thomsen: Preliminary remark . In: Andreas Thomsen (Ed.): Who was Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son . Make a book publisher, Neukirchen 2008, p. 15.
  4. ^ Broder Christiansen, Nordic Courier of July 17, 1934. (Panten)
  5. ↑ Andreas Thomsen (ed.): Who was Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son . Make a book publishing house, Neukirchen 2008. ISBN 978-3-940218-46-9 , p. 14.
  6. ^ Broder Christiansen: Philosophy of Art . B. Behr's Verlag, Berlin-Steglitz 1912. p. 112.
  7. ↑ Broder Christiansen, in: Nordischer Kurier of July 17, 1934. Quoted from Albert Panten: Greetings , in: Andreas Thomsen (Ed.): Who was Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son . Make a book publisher, Neukirchen 2008 ISBN 978-3-940218-46-9 p. 67
  8. ↑ His ailment was otherwise referred to as "severe heart angina" (Broder Christiansen, Elisabeth Carnap: Lehrbuch der Handschriftendeutung . 2nd edition Reclam, Stuttgart 1947, p. 4), as "heart disease" (Gerd Rienäcker) or simply as "disease" (Wilhelm Schäfer)
  9. ↑ a b Gerd Rienäcker: Thinking about my grandfather. In: Andreas Thomsen (Ed.): Who was Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son . Make a book publishing house, Neukirchen 2008. ISBN 978-3-940218-46-9 , p. 30. Alfred Panten: Greetings. In: Thomsen
  10. ↑ a b c ( Wilhelm Schäfer : Der Einsiedler von Wiesneck. Appendix to: Broder Christiansen / Uve Jens Kruse: Lebenskunst. 9th edition. Felsen-Verlag, Munich without year. Also as an appendix to: Broder Christiansen: Die kleine Prosaschule. Felsen Publishing house, Buchenbach in Baden around 1935).
  11. ↑ a b Broder Christiansen, Elisabeth Carnap: Textbook of Handwriting Interpretation . 2nd edition Reclam, Stuttgart 1947, p. 4
  12. ↑ Gerd Rienäcker: Thinking about my grandfather . In: Thomsen
  13. ↑ Broder Christiansen, Elisabeth Carnap: Textbook of Handwriting Interpretation . 2nd Edition. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1947. p. 4: "... but was too critical not to soon recognize and overcome the mistakes of this master."
  14. ↑ Broder Christiansen addressed the dedication in Die Kunst in 1930 to Eli and Eline, Elisabeth's daughter. There is a sign of life from the two women from 1938 on a trip to Mexico with the ship "Memel"
  15. ↑ The new god of 1934 appeared in Munich.
  16. ^ Advertisement in: Broder Christiansen / Uve Jens Kruse: Lebenskunst . 9th edition. Rock Publishing House. Munich without a year. (At that time: The Institute for Scientific Graphology, Munich 19, Jagdstrasse 5).
  17. ^ Advertisement in: Broder Christiansen: The small prose school . Felsen-Verlag, Munich around 1935 (at that time: German Prosaseminar, Munich 51, Hochleite 9), and loose advertisement sheet in: Broder Christiansen: Eine Prosaschule . Reclam Publishing House. Stuttgart 1949.
  18. ^ Andreas Thomsen: Preliminary remark . In: Andreas Thomsen (Ed.): Who was Dr. Broder Christiansen. Life and work of a German philosopher. A village honors and discovers its forgotten son . Make a book publisher, Neukirchen 2008. ISBN 978-3-940218-46-9 , p. 20.
  19. ↑ "The writing is characterized by some extremely happy and precise formulations of epistemological problems." (Heinrich Rickert: The subject of knowledge . 6th edition. Verlag JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1928. P. 298 N. 1).
  20. ↑ Broder Christiansen: Us. Di Filosofye fun Us . Farlag Heim, New York 1920. [1]
  21. ↑ Designation of the location of the Felsen-Verlag as stated in the relevant book.
  22. ↑ Dr. Kurt Kauffmann is… the best advertising man in Germany. It was he who brought the Leipzig Fair to the notice of 80 countries. (Herbert N. Casson in the preface to the English edition of the head worker ).
  23. ↑ The book was translated by Frederick H. Burgess and supplemented by Herbert N. Casson: Working from his translation I rewrote the book adding any matter that I thought would increase its value. It is thus an Anglo-German book. (Herbert N. Casson in the preface to the English edition of the head worker ).
personal data
SURNAME Christiansen, Broder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kruse, Uve Jens (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Klixbüll , North Frisia
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1958
Place of death Gauting