Christoph Bernhard Schlueter

Christoph Bernhard Schlueter (born March 27, 1801 in Warendorf , † February 4, 1884 in Münster ) was a German poet and philosopher .

Life

Christoph Bernhard Schlueter was born as the son of the town judge of Warendorf. At the age of eight, the boy exploded a bottle of lime and water, severely affecting his eyes and making him completely blind at the age of 27.

He studied philosophy and philology at the University of Göttingen, and later taught as a professor of philosophy at the Münster Academy. Schlüter's main work consists of works on the relationship between faith and theology in the Catholic tradition. He is considered the discoverer and one of the mentors of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . He was also friends with the poet Luise Hensel , whose songs and letters he edited.

His grave is in the historic Hörsterfriedhof on Bohlweg in Münster.

Fonts (selection)

The Teaching of Spinoza , 1836
World and Faith , 1844
The heavenly philosophy of Calaph ben Nathan , 1845

from the estate

Liberty and bondage . Introduced and published with the preparatory drafts and quotations from Josefine Nettesheim . Regensberg, Münster 1971 (lecture from 1837).

literature

in order of appearance

Hermann Hüffer : Schlüter, Christoph Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 607-611.

Adolf Dyroff , Wilhelm Hohnen: The philosopher Christoph Bernhard Schlueter and his predecessors (= historical research on modern philosophy, vol. 4). Schöningh, Paderborn 1935.

Josefine Nettesheim: Christoph Bernhard Schlueter. A figure from the German Biedermeier era, presented using new sources with an appendix to previously unpublished letters from Schlueter . de Gruyter, Berlin 1960.

Walter Troxler: Christoph Bernhard Schlueter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 316-317. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Rüdiger Krüger : On the situation of the Catholic Church in the Prussian Wiedenbrück as reflected in the life of Luise Hensel and her letters to Christoph Bernhard Schlueter. ; in: The Wiedenbrück district in its first decades. Structures and people. (Ed. Johannes Meier ) (publications from the Gütersloh district archive, vol. 15). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2018, pp. 119–153.

Footnotes

^ Josef Höfer : On the dawn of neo-scholasticism in the 19th century. Christoph Bernhard Schlueter, Franz von Baader and Hermann Ernst Plaßmann . In: Historisches Jahrbuch , vol. 72 (1952), pp. 410-432.
↑ See: Josefine Nettesheim: Schlüter and Droste. Documents of friendship: Letters from Christoph Bernhard to and about Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . Regensberg, Münster 1956.
↑ See: Letters from the German Biedermeier, 1832–1876. Luise Hensel - Christoph Bernhard Schlueter . Edited by Josefine Nettesheim with an introduction and explanations using new sources. Regensberg, Münster 1962.

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personal data
SURNAME	Schlueter, Christoph Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 27, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warendorf
DATE OF DEATH	February 4, 1884
Place of death	Muenster

[1] Josef Höfer : On the dawn of neo-scholasticism in the 19th century. Christoph Bernhard Schlueter, Franz von Baader and Hermann Ernst Plaßmann . In: Historisches Jahrbuch , vol. 72 (1952), pp. 410-432.

[2] See: Josefine Nettesheim: Schlüter and Droste. Documents of friendship: Letters from Christoph Bernhard to and about Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . Regensberg, Münster 1956.

[3] See: Letters from the German Biedermeier, 1832–1876. Luise Hensel - Christoph Bernhard Schlueter . Edited by Josefine Nettesheim with an introduction and explanations using new sources. Regensberg, Münster 1962.