Carl Albrecht (doctor)

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Carl Eduard Albrecht (born March 28, 1902 in Bremen ; † July 19, 1965 ) was a philosophically and psychologically committed German doctor and mystic. With his writings on the philosophy of consciousness , especially on mystic research, he influenced u. a. Gabriel Marcel and Karl Rahner .

Life

Carl Albrecht came from the influential north German Albrecht family . He was the eldest son of the Bremen merchant Carl Albrecht and his American wife Mary Ladson Robertson. At the University of Leipzig in 1920 he studied history, economics, philosophy and psychology. He heard u. a. with the Gestalt psychologist Felix Krueger . After moving to Marburg, he enrolled in medicine. In addition, he dealt with theology, was influenced by Rudolf Bultmann and Martin Heidegger , while Karl Barth shaped him primarily as an adversary. During his studies he joined the Wandervogel movement and the SPD , which he left again in 1928. In the same year he received his license to practice medicine , and from 1932 he practiced as a specialist in internal medicine in Bremen .

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In addition to his medical work, Carl Albrecht dealt with autogenic training . From this he developed a technique of immersion, which he used therapeutically as a doctor on the one hand, but also increasingly used - especially after the Second World War - for phenomenological research into the mystical state of consciousness, whereby in his methodologically groundbreaking approach he mainly focused on the hermeneutical interpretation of recorded linguistic expressions that were made in a trance state.

Initially, Albrecht had a primarily scientific and medical interest in the phenomenon of mysticism (i.e. in experiences of transcendence, in radically expanded and changed states of consciousness). Contrary to his skeptical-critical initial hypothesis, he finally came to the conclusion that (real) mysticism is by no means a psychopathological phenomenon or mere esoteric nonsense. Instead, Albrecht assumed that the (authentic) mystic in the state of contemplation does indeed experience participation in absolute consciousness and that, on closer inspection, the state of mystical consciousness can therefore be characterized as the highest, clearest and most healthy mental state, that of the Human could attain. From a phenomenological point of view, the mystic's supposed loss of reality turns out to be his breakthrough to the noetic knowledge of maximum reality (or of the absolute). In the course of time, the objectivistically oriented mystic researcher Carl Albrecht had become an important modern mystic. This remarkable change found its biographical expression in Albrecht's conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism, which in his theological tradition was predominantly anti-mystical.

family

Carl Albrecht is the father of the CDU politician Ernst Albrecht and the conductor George Alexander Albrecht as well as the grandfather of Ursula von der Leyen , Hans-Holger and Marc Albrecht .

Fonts

  • Psychology of Mystical Consciousness. Bremen 1951.
  • The mystical knowledge. Gnoseology and philosophical relevance of the mystical relation. Bremen 1958.
  • Carl Albrecht, The mystical word. Experience and speak in absorption. Illustrated and edited by Hans A. Fischer-Barnicol. With a foreword by Karl Rahner . Mainz 1974.

literature

  • Simon Peng-Keller : God's Passion in Absence. Carl Albrecht's psychological research on mysticism from a theological perspective. Würzburg 2003 (Studies on Systematic and Spiritual Theology, Vol. 39.)
  • Simon Peng-Keller: Presence show in immersion and ecstasy. Carl Albrechts Phenomenology of Mysticism. In: ZMR 90 (2006), pp. 90-102.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the German gender book
  2. ^ A b Christian Henning : The history of religious psychology in the German-speaking area. In: Henning, Sebastian Murken, Erich Nestler: Introduction to the psychology of religion. Paderborn 2003, pp. 9-93, on pp. 58-59.
  3. ↑ Christian Werwath: The Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Ernst Albrecht (1976-1990) - Approaching an inaccessible. Political leadership in Lower Saxony. Ibidem, Stuttgart 2014, chapter 3.1 The youth: the cornerstone of his success .

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personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht, Carl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, writer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1965
Place of death Bremen