Bruno Strauss

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Bruno Strauss (born January 14, 1889 in Hannoversch-Münden ; † May 22, 1969 in Shreveport , USA ) was a German educator , Germanist and historian of philosophy.

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Strauss grew up in Marburg, where he attended the Philippinum grammar school from 1899 to 1906 . His father, Abraham Strauss, was a teacher at the school of the Marburg Jewish Community and was friends with the philosopher Hermann Cohen . From 1906 to 1908 Strauss studied philosophy and German studies in Marburg, and from 1908 in Berlin. There he received his doctorate in 1911 with a thesis on the translator Niklas von Wyle . His doctoral supervisor was the Germanist Gustav Roethe .

From 1913 he held a position at a Berlin elementary school until he volunteered for military service in 1915. As a soldier he was u. a. used in the Balkans. In the spring of 1918 he accepted a position as a teacher for German, Latin and Greek at the Leibniz Gymnasium in Berlin, where he was the teacher of Walter Ledermann . After he was dismissed in 1933 due to the law to restore the civil service , he moved to the private Adass Isroel school. In 1937 he took over the management of the Berlin Jewish High School on Wilsnacker Strasse.

It was only in August 1939, after a long period of hesitation, that he and his wife, the publicist Bertha Badt-Strauss , decided to flee. After a short stay in London, they emigrated to the USA in October 1939. There Strauss taught until 1964 as a professor of German studies, philosophy and history at the Centenary College in Shreveport ( Louisiana ).

As a scientist, Strauss made a name for himself primarily as a Mendelssohn researcher. He also published the philosophy of religion ("Religion of Reason from the Sources of Judaism", Leipzig 1919) of his teacher Hermann Cohen and his "Jüdische Schriften" in three volumes and a selection of his letters.

Fonts

  • The translator Nicolaus von Wyle , Berlin 1912; Reprint: New York 1970 (Palaestra; 118).
  • Cohen Bibliography. In: New Jewish monthly books, vol. 2 (1918). No. 15, pp. 379-385.
  • Three unnamed recipients of Mendelssohn's letters. In: Journal for the history of the Jews in Germany, vol. 1 (1929). No. 3, pp. 245-254.
  • Moses Mendelssohn as a letter writer. In: The Order of Bne Briss. Messages from the Grand Lodge for Germany. Berlin 1929. pp. 158-160.
  • Moses Mendelssohn's Relationship to Jewish Hamburg. In: community sheet of the Jewish community Hamburg. 5. Vol. 9 (1929). Pp. 5-8.
  • Moses Mendelssohn in Potsdam on September 30, 1771. A little clearing up. Dedicated to the members and friends of the Soncino Society . Printed in 250 copies by Aldus Druck Berlin, Berlin 1929.
    • Moses Mendelssohn in Potsdam on September 30, 1771. With an essay by Eva J. Engel, Berlin: Ed. Hentrich, 1994 (Series German Past; Volume 111) ISBN 3-89468-112-8 .

editor

  • Hermann Cohen: The religion of reason from the sources of Judaism, Leipzig: Fock, 1919 / Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann , 1919.
    • Hermann Cohen: Religion of Reason from the Sources of Judaism. Revised from the author's manuscript and provided with an afterword by Bruno Strauss. With a picture of the author by Max Liebermann . Second edition, Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann, 1929.
  • Hermann Cohen's Jewish writings. With an introduction by Franz Rosenzweig ed. by Bruno Strauss. Three volumes, Berlin: Schwetschke, 1924.
  • Moses Mendelssohn: Collected Writings (anniversary edition). Volume 11: Correspondence I (1754–1762). Edited by Bruno Strauss, Berlin: Akademie-Verl., 1932.
    • New edition: Moses Mendelssohn: Gesammelte Schriften (anniversary edition). Vol. 11: Correspondence I (1754–1762). Edited by Bruno Strauss. With addenda by Alexander Altmann , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1974.
  • Hermann Cohen: Letters. Selected and ed. by Bertha and Bruno Strauss, Berlin: Schocken- Verlag, 1939 (Schocken-Verlag library; 92).

literature

  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 358.
  • Barbara Händler-Lachmann: "... that this young man has no fear of prejudice and distrust of us". Bruno Strauss on his 100th birthday, in: Studier 'mal Marburg, Vol. 14 (1989 / February), pp. 19-20.
  • Martina Steer: Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970). A Jewish journalist , Frankfurt am Main a. a .: Campus, 2005 (Campus Judaica; 22).
  • Strauss, Bruno. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 585-588.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Ledermann (Ed.): Encounters of a Mathematician. Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4092-8267-9 , pp. 9 .
  2. ^ Jörg H. Fehrs: From Heidereutergasse to Roseneck. Jewish Schools in Berlin 1712-1942 , Edition Hentrich Berlin, 1993, ISBN 3-89468-075 - X, pp. 279–281
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, Germanist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hannoversch-Münden
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1969
Place of death Shreveport , USA