Eduard Loewenthal

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Eduard Loewenthal

Eduard Loewenthal (born March 12, 1836 in Ernsbach (Forchtenberg) , † March 26, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German writer of Jewish origin. Loewenthal was involved in the peace movement. In 1874 he founded the German Association for International Peace Propaganda .

Life

Eduard Loewenthal, son of the first teacher at the Israelite elementary school in Buchau, Isac Loewenthal, received a strictly Jewish upbringing from his parents. His mother in particular was very pious. He was also instructed and raised in the principles of Judaism on the part of his father. His father's parents came from Nancy and Colmar, respectively, and had moved to Germany from there. His paternal grandmother was a cousin of the French General See. Berthold Auerbach was a college friend of his father.

Eduard Loewenthal attended the Latin school in Horb until 1848. Teachers at this school were the preachers of the local Catholic Church, who gave Löwenthal brilliant certificates and encouraged him to continue his studies. His parents then gave him to a boarding school in Stuttgart to attend the royal high school there. Due to special achievements, Löwenthal was able to skip two classes. His teacher for German language and literature as well as for philosophical propaedeutics was Gustav Pfizer , a well-known poet.

He studied law and philosophy in Tübingen and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1859 with a dissertation on Spinoza and Leibniz . He founded in Frankfurt a. M. the general university magazine and became editor of the magazine employers published by Max Wirth . From Frankfurt a. M. expelled for a newspaper article, he took over the editing of the Wiesbadener Zeitung . Here, too, an article from his pen was the reason that he was sentenced to eight days in prison for degrading his religion. He moved to Leipzig and edited the Glocke magazine there . By Ferdinand Lassalle , he was persuaded to Berlin emigrate where 1871 he the editor of the Neue Freie Zeitung took over. Here he founded the German Association for International Peace Propaganda in 1874 . Since he was sentenced to prison terms in two press trials, he went to Brussels in 1877 , from there to London and finally to Paris , where he founded the Weltbühne, Deutsche Pariser Zeitung and the French monthly Le Monde de l'Esprit . In 1888 he returned to Berlin as a result of the amnesty for political and press offenses issued by Kaiser Friedrich .

Works

  • System and history of naturalism 1861
  • A religion without a creed 1865
  • Le cogitantisme ou la religion scientifique 1886
  • Bellamy's State and its Succession 1891
  • Cogitantism as a state and world religion 1892
  • The bankruptcy of the Darwin-Häckel development theory 1900.
  • The religious movement in the 19th century . Cronbach, Berlin 1900
  • The new teaching 1901
  • The Fulgurogenesis 1902
  • Organic new formation and regeneration 1903
  • True monism and pseudo-monism 1907
  • New system of sociology 1908
  • Modern Philosophers 1909
  • My life's work in 1910

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autobiographical note in For Our Home , ed. by Timon Schroeter, JJ Weber, Leipzig 1902, p. 188
personal data
SURNAME Loewenthal, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Ernsbach (Forchtenberg)
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1917
Place of death Berlin