Eberhard Dennert

Eberhard Gustav Heinrich Nathanael Dennert (born July 31, 1861 in Pützerlin near Stargard , † June 18, 1942 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German natural scientist, philosopher, senior teacher and founder and leader of the Kepler Association .

Life

He attended the secondary school in Lippstadt and was a student there. a. by Hermann Müller . Dennert studied natural sciences in Bonn and Marburg, where he also received his doctorate in 1884 and passed the state examination in 1885. During his studies he became a member of the Bonn Wingolf .

In 1907, Eberhard Dennert founded the Keplerbund in Frankfurt am Main to promote knowledge of nature , based in Godesberg . The Keplerbund was dedicated to combating Darwin's theory of evolution and materialistic monism, as represented by Ernst Haeckel . It is regarded as the answer of Christian (Protestant) oriented scientists to the intensive public relations work of the German Monist Association founded by Ernst Haeckel in 1906 . Dennert maintained close contacts with prominent Christian scientists such as Johannes Reinke and Erich Wasmann .

Dennert was a teacher at the Evangelical Pedagogy in Godesberg from 1889 to 1908 as well as editor and publisher of the "German Encyclopedia": Dennerts Konversations Lexikon , 3 volumes, in the 3rd expanded edition, Verlag der Badische Presse, Karlsruhe, 1910. For the entire editorial team of the work his brother the theologian Karl Mützelfeldt was responsible. From 1903 to 1910 he published the magazine Glaube und Wissen , from 1909 to 1920 Our World .

Works

Comparative plant morphology . Weber, Leipzig 1894 ( digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
From the deathbed of Darwinism . Kielmann, Stuttgart 1903. Translated into English as At the Deathbed of Darwinism by Edwin V. O'Harra & John H. Peschges. German Literary Board, Burlington 1904 ( digitized and full text from Project Gutenberg ).
Through to the light! Memories from a life of work and struggle , Stuttgart: Steinkopf [1937].

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Dennert, Eberhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1260-1262. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56551-6 .
H. Hohlwein : Keplerbund , in: The religion in past and present (RGG), 3rd edition. JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1959, vol. 3.
Albert Schwarz : Dennert, Eberhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 603 ( digitized version ).
Olaf Selle: Anti-Darwinism and Biologism. Natural science, worldview and politics in the work of Eberhard Dennerts (1861-1942) , Husum 1986 (Treatises on the history of medicine and natural sciences 54), ISBN 978-3-7868-4054-1

Web links

Wikisource: Eberhard Dennert - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 220-225, 482 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Dennert, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dennert, E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German natural scientist, founder of the Kepler Association
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pützerlin
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1942
Place of death	bad Godesberg

[1] Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 220-225, 482 f .