Constantin Rădulescu-Motru

Constantin Rădulescu-Motru (born February 15, 1868 in Butoieşti , Mehedinți district , † March 6, 1957 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, playwright, author and politician, and President of the Romanian Academy .

Live and act

Constantin Rădulescu-Motru was the son of Radu Poppescu and Judita Butoi, who died in childbirth.

After attending the Colegiul Național Carol I in Craiova , he studied law and literature at the University of Bucharest . In the summer of 1889 he toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He then studied in Munich and Leipzig . He was a student of Carl Stumpf and worked in Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory . His fellow student Paul Mentz introduced him to Nietzsche's work in 1893 . In the same year Rădulescu-Motru did his doctorate with Wundt in Leipzig with the work on the development of Kant's theory of natural causality to the doctor of philosophy. The politically active Rădulescu-Motru took over the chair of philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1906 and in 1918 the management of the Bucharest National Theater. Later he was also President of the Romanian Academy from 1938 to 1941.

After his death, Rădulescu-Motru was buried in the Cimitirul Bellu cemetery in Bucharest.

Works (selection)

FW Nietzsche, Viața și filosofia, 1897
Problemele psihologiei, 1898
Psihologia martorului, 1906
Psihologia industriașului, 1907
Din psihologia revoluționarului, 1919
Curs de psihologie, 1923
Țărănismul. Un suflet și o politică, 1927
Vocația, factor hotărâtor în cultura popoarelor, 1932
Românismul. Catehismul unei noi spiritualităţi, 1936
Psihologia poporului român, 1937
Timp și destin, 1940
Etnicul românesc, Comunitate de origine, limbă și destin, 1942
Time and Fate (publications by the German Scientific Institute in Bucharest. Translations 1), Jena & Leipzig, 1943

Web links

Literature by and about Constantin Rădulescu-Motru in the catalog of the German National Library
Ingrid Kästner: Science Communication in Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Contributions from the conference on December 5th and 6th, 2008.-, Shaker, 2009, ISBN 3832282068 ; Excerpt from the University of Leipzig, letter from Constantin Rădulescu-Motru to Wilhelm Wundt from 1919, p. 159 (PDF; 8.4 MB)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Rădulescu-Motru, Constantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rădulescu, Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, playwright, author and politician and President of the Romanian Academy
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Butoieşti , Mehedinți County
DATE OF DEATH	March 6, 1957
Place of death	Bucharest

[1] Citate Celebre & Enciclopedie (rum.)

[2] University of Leipzig: Dissertations with Wundt

[3] Reginald Grünenberg: An old master - Radulescu-Motru's dissertation on Kant rediscovered, from DRH, issue 1-2 / 2000 (PDF; 46 kB)