Emerich Coreth

Emerich Coreth SJ (born August 10, 1919 in Raabs an der Thaya ; † September 1, 2006 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian Catholic theologian and philosopher .

Because of his thinking, which in the 20th century wanted to justify metaphysics in conflict with Immanuel Kant and more recent philosophers , he is classified as Neuthomism . He was best known for his works on the history of philosophy , which deal with the philosophy of the 17th to 20th centuries, mostly endeavoring to present it objectively.

Life

He was born as the youngest of three children of Count Emmerich von Coreth zu Coredo and Starkenberg (1881–1947) and Countess Magdalena Matz von Spiegelfeld (1888–1973).

Coreth became a Jesuit in 1937 . He studied philosophy and theology in Pullach and Innsbruck , where he in 1948 to Dr. theol. PhD. At the Gregoriana he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1950 he taught at the theological faculty of the University of Innsbruck , from 1955 until his retirement in 1989 as full professor of Christian philosophy .

From 1961 to 1967 Coreth was rector of the Jesuit College in Innsbruck, from 1969 to 1971 rector of the university. As such, he gave the keynote lecture at the Congress of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband in Würzburg in 1972 . From 1972 to 1977 he was Provincial of the Austrian Order Province of the Jesuits.

He has received various honors for his work beyond the university, e.g. B. the Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1970), the Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol (1972) and the Cardinal Innitzer Prize (1988). In 1993 he was awarded the Tyrolean State Prize for Science .

Since 1967 he was a member of the Catholic student association KÖHV Leopoldina Innsbruck in the ÖCV .

Fonts

Dialectical being in Hegel's logic. Vienna: Herder 1952
Basic questions of human existence. Innsbruck; Vienna; Munich: Tyrolia 1956
Metaphysics: A methodical-systematic foundation. Innsbruck; Vienna; Munich: Tyrolia 1961
Basic Hermeneutics Issues: A Philosophical Contribution. Freiburg i. Br .; Basel; Vienna: Herder 1969
What is man ?: Basics of a philosophical anthropology. Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: Tyrolia 1973 ISBN 3-7022-1098-9
together with Harald Schöndorf : Philosophy of the 17th and. 18th century. Stuttgart u. a .: Kohlhammer 1983 ISBN 3-17-008030-X
together with Peter Ehlen and Josef Schmidt : Philosophy of the 19th Century. Stuttgart u. a .: Kohlhammer 1984 ISBN 3-17-008031-8
About the meaning of freedom. Innsbruck; Vienna: Tyrolia 1985 ISBN 3-7022-1560-3
together with Peter Ehlen , Gerd Haeffner and Friedo Ricken : Philosophy of the 20th Century. Stuttgart u. a .: Kohlhammer 1986 ISBN 3-17-008462-3
(Ed.): Christian Philosophy in Catholic Thought of the 19th and 20th Century. 3 vols. Graz; Vienna; Cologne: Styria 1987–1990
Metaphysics floor plan. Innsbruck; Vienna: Tyrolia 1994 ISBN 3-7022-1951-X
The theological faculty Innsbruck: its history and scientific work from the beginning to the present. Innsbruck: Leopold-Franzens-Univ. 1995 ISBN 3-901249-26-5
Contributions to Christian philosophy. Edited by Christian Kanzian. (Bibliogr. E. Coreth pp. 409-415) Innsbruck; Vienna: Tyrolia 1999 ISBN 3-7022-2257-X
God in philosophical thinking. Stuttgart u. a .: Kohlhammer 2001 ISBN 3-17-016723-5

literature

Otto Muck (ed.): Creating meaning. Metaphysics in the diversity of human questions. Commemorative publication for Emerich Coreth . Innsbruck / Vienna 1989. (Bibliogr. E. Coreth pp. 389-408): Tyrolia 1989 ISBN 3-7022-1697-9

Web links

Literature by and about Emerich Coreth in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Emerich Coreth in the German Digital Library
Short biography and publications since 1989
Józef Niewiadomski : From a single source - In Memoriam Emerich Coreth SJ
Entry on Emerich Coreth in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
P. Emerich Coreth SJ (1919–2006) ( Memento from October 20, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

^ The task of the student associations at the university . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 73, June 1972, No. 3, pp. 117–125
↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
^ Tyrolean State Prize for Science - Prize Winners 1984 to 2014 ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Coreth, Emerich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Catholic theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Raabs an der Thaya
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 2006
Place of death	innsbruck

[1] The task of the student associations at the university . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 73, June 1972, No. 3, pp. 117–125

[2] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

[3] Tyrolean State Prize for Science - Prize Winners 1984 to 2014 ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2015.