Cay Baron von Brockdorff

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Cay Ludwig Georg Konrad Baron von Brockdorff (born April 17, 1874 in Itzehoe , † January 29, 1946 in Kiel ) was a German philosopher , sociologist and university professor.

Life

Baron Cay von Brockdorff was the son of the district court president Baron Otto von Brockdorff (1840–1907) and Sophie geb. Hennings.

After graduation in 1894 in Bremen and the study of philosophy, science, medicine and sociology in Heidelberg and Kiel (where he was a student of Ferdinand Tonnies was) he was in 1898 at Kiel University for Dr. phil. PhD. The subject of his doctoral thesis was Kant Teleology. He completed his habilitation in 1901 at the Braunschweig University of Technology with contributions to the relationship between Schopenhauer and Spinoza , where he was then a private lecturer in philosophy until 1909, and then an associate professor of philosophy until 1910. After his re-habilitation with Über die philosophia perennis at the University of Kiel, he was there from 1910 to 1921 private lecturer for philosophy, then associate professor for philosophy and education.

In 1915 he married Gertrud Stendal from Magdeburg in Kiel . Both daughter Anna (* 1915) became a conventual of the aristocratic Itzehoe monastery .

As a follower of Thomas Hobbes 'doctrine of natural law , he made friends with Tönnies (Hobbes' European rediscoverer), with whom he traveled to Scandinavia and England, and with him he founded the German Hobbes Society in 1929, of which he became president. He was also a member of the Scientific Examination Office for Schleswig-Holstein . He also belonged to the Kant Society since 1934 .

Before the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” Brockdorff was a member of the DNVP . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP , in 1934 of the NSLB .

Publications (selection)

  • Hobbes as a philosopher, educator and sociologist. 1919.
  • The English Enlightenment Philosophy. 1924, (Kraus, Nendeln 1973 reprint).
  • The German Enlightenment Philosophy. 1926, (Kraus, Nendeln 1973 reprint).
  • (Ed.) Publications of the Hobbes Society. 9 volumes, 1932–1938.
  • Truth and Probability in Hobbes and Condillac. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1937.
  • Five unprinted letters from Jean Pierre de Martel to Thomas Hobbes. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1937.
  • To Tönnies' development history. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1937.
  • Personal information from Ferdinand Tönnies. in: Pure and Applied Sociology. A celebratory offering for Ferdinand Tönnies on his eightieth birthday on July 26, 1935. presented by Gerhard Albrecht u. a., Hans Buske, Leipzig 1936.
  • In memory of Hobbes' 350th birthday. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1938.
  • Hobbes as a polyhistor. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1939.
  • Learned societies in the 17th century. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1940.
  • Schopenhauer. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941.

Brockdorff's last manuscript Sociology of the Revolution remained unprinted. (Location: Schleswig-Holstein State Library)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Klaus-Peter Horn: Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn / Obb. 2003, p. 200.
personal data
SURNAME Brockdorff, Cay Baron von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockdorff, Cay Ludwig Georg Konrad Baron von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1946
Place of death Kiel