Cornelius Bickel

Cornelius Bickel (born February 11, 1945 in Calw ) is a German sociologist who researches and publishes mainly on Ferdinand Tönnies .

After graduating from the Jungmannschule in Eckernförde , Bickel studied history, philosophy and sociology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1964 . His academic teachers included the historian Karl Dietrich Erdmann , the philosopher Kurt Hübner and the sociologist Lars Clausen , who became his doctoral supervisor. Bickel received his doctorate in 1988 and was then (until 2010) an academic advisor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Kiel.

Bickel is a member of the Ferdinand Tönnies Society and as co-editor of the Ferdinand Tönnies Complete Edition . He has published articles on Tönnies and his theorem of community and society in numerous collective works .

Fonts (selection)

• Ferdinand Tönnies: Sociology as a skeptical enlightenment between historicism and rationalism. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-531-12110-3 (also dissertation, University of Kiel, 1988; special edition Profil Verlag, Vienna / Munich 2020 with the title Sociology as skeptical enlightenment between historicism and rationalism , ISBN 978-3-89019- 740-1 ).
• with Rolf Fechner (Ed.): Correspondence: Ferdinand Tönnies - Harald Höffding . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-06773-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cornelius Bickel: Memories of Jan Tönnies, in: Tönnies-Forum Heft 2 2017, p. 13. The source of the other biographical information is the author's reference in Cornelius Bickel: Ferdinand Tönnies: Sociology as skeptical enlightenment between historicism and rationalism. Archive copy of Kiel University Library , signature TI 3898 Archivexpl, Kiel 1988 (later published by Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991.)
2. ↑ For example in Dirk Kaesler , Ludgera Vogt (Hrsg.): Hauptwerke der Soziologie (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 396). Kröner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-520-39601-7 , pp. 423-428 or in Dirk Kaesler (Ed.): Classics of Sociology. Volume I: From Auguste Comte to Alfred Schütz. 5th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2006, pp. 113-126.