Dmitrij Tschižewskij

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Dmitrij Tschižewskij

Dmytro Chyzhevsky (proper spelling, Russian Дмитрий Чижевский Dmytro Chyzhevsky , emphasizing: Dmytro Chyzhevsky ; originally Ukrainian Дмитро Чижевський Dmytro Tschyschewskyj even Dmytro Čyževs'kyj ; born March 23 . Jul / 4. April  1894 greg. In Alexandrija , Russian Empire ; † 18 April 1977 in Heidelberg , Germany ) was a German Slavist , philosopher and cultural scientist of Russian-Ukrainian origin.

Life

Tschižewskij studied first in St. Petersburg (1911-1913) and then in Kiev , where he graduated in 1918. In 1921 he emigrated to Germany, where he a. a. studied philosophy with Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger , from 1924 he was a lecturer in Ukrainian at the Free Ukrainian University in Prague. In 1932 he became a lecturer in Russian at the University of Halle and remained so until 1945. Since his wife, whom he married in 1919, was of Jewish descent, Tschižewskij was considered to be "non-Aryan". His wife emigrated to the USA with their daughter in 1939.

After the end of the war he fled to Marburg, where he was visiting professor until 1951, after which he taught at Harvard University until 1956 . From 1956 he was professor of Slavic studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Cologne . After the period of statelessness, he took German citizenship. Since 1962 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the Poetics and Hermeneutics group .

His work in the field of Slavic studies includes a large number of works on the literature and philosophy of Russia, Ukraine and other Slavic countries.

Dmitrij Tschižewskij was buried in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) .

Fonts (selection)

  • Čyževs'kyj, Dmytro: Hegel in Russia . Hall 1934
  • Epilogue to Die toten Seelen , trans. Fred Ottow, Winkler, Munich 1949 and book club “Friends of World Literature”, Hamburg et al. 1949; Afterword by Tschižewskij pp. 475–494
  • Čyževs'kyj, Dmytro: Hegel with the Slavs . Reichenberg 1934; 2nd edition Bad Homburg 1961
  • Čyževs'kyj, Dmytro: Europe and Russia. Texts on the problem of Western European and Russian self-image . WBG, Darmstadt 1959
  • Dmitrij Tschižewskij: Russian intellectual history . 2 vols. 1959, 1961 ( rde 84, 122)
  • Dmitrij Tschižewskij: Comparative history of the Slavic literatures . 2 vols. Berlin 1968
  • Dmitry Tschizewsky: History of Old Russian Literature in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, Kiev epoch . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1948

literature

  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 417f
  • Angela Richter: Dimitriy Tschizewsky. A Ukrainian at the University of Halle , in: Scientia Halensis 1/1997, p. 13
  • Angela Richter / André Augustin (eds.): Dimitrij I. Tschižewskij and his Halle private library: bibliographical materials . Münster / Hamburg / London: Lit, 2003.

Web links

Commons : Dmytro Chyzhevsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ Angela Richter / André Augustin (ed.): Dimitrij I. Tschižewskij and his Halle private library: bibliographical materials . Münster / Hamburg / London: Lit, 2003, p. 16.
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Dmitrij Tschižewskij. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Frequent reprints. New edition 2010 ISBN 3538054606 , an interim Edition at Parkland without the afterword
personal data
SURNAME Tschižewskij, Dmitrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Čyževs'kyj, Dmytro; Tschyshevskyi, Dmytro; Чижевський, Дмитро
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Slavist, philosopher and cultural scientist of Russian-Ukrainian origin
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandija , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1977
Place of death Heidelberg