Eduard Strauss (philosopher)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eduard Strauss (born February 18, 1876 in Kreuznach ; died August 23, 1952 in New York City ) was a German chemist and Jewish philosopher.

Life

Eduard Strauss was a son of the wine merchant Heinrich Strauss and Viktoria Nathan. Strauss moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1892 and from 1895 studied chemistry, physics and biology in Bonn, Munich and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in chemistry in 1899. He worked for Karl Andreas Hofmann and as an assistant for Albert Hilger in Munich.

Strauss moved back to Frankfurt and married Beatrice Rosenberg in 1907, whose parents were remigrants from the USA. They had two children, the daughter Carola Trier (1913–2000) became a dancer and Pilates trainer. From 1909 to 1912 he headed a biochemical laboratory and was also a teacher at the Association for Jewish National Education. Strauss became a soldier in the First World War in 1914. He then worked at the Biological Institute at Frankfurt University until 1922 and has since been employed at the Georg-Speyer-Haus , Institute for Chemotherapy.

In addition, in 1920 he co-founded the Frankfurt Jewish Adult Education Center , Free Jewish Teaching House, and gave lectures on issues relating to the philosophy of religion. Strauss wrote articles for the Frankfurter Israelitische Gemeindeblatt, the Jewish magazine Der Morgen , but also for the Frankfurter Zeitung . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Strauss was dismissed from the Georg-Speyer-Haus in 1935. In June 1938 he emigrated with the family to Italy, which he had to leave again in December of that year due to the racial laws . Since his wife was an American by birth, they managed to escape via Cuba to the USA, where he received citizenship in 1943.

In 1939, Strauss immediately found work as a chemist in New York at Beth David Hospital and then worked for various clinics and for New York University . He became a member of the Jewish Congregation Habonim, devoted himself to philosophical and religious questions in the context of adult education, wrote for the German-language emigrant newspaper Aufbau and had his lectures printed.

Fonts (selection)

  • About amino alcohols and some derivatives . Berlin: Printed by E. Ebering, 1899, inaugural dissertation
  • Studies on the albuminoids with special reference to the spongin and the keratins . Heidelberg: Winter, 1904
  • Judaism and Zionism . Frankfurt aM: J. Kauffmann, 1919
  • Franz Rosenzweig : On Jewish education: three letters . With an afterword by Eduard Strauss. Berlin: Schocken, 1937
  • Essays and Notes 1919–1945 [on his seventieth birthday, February 18, 1946]. New York: Habonim Congregation, 1946

literature

  • Strauss, Eduard , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1137
  • Strauss, Eduard , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 358

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literature from and about Trier, Carola in the bibliographic database WorldCat , see also en: Carola Trier
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American chemist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1952
Place of death New York City