Ernst Hugo Fischer

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Ernst Hugo Fischer (born October 17, 1897 in Halle an der Saale , † May 11, 1975 in Ohlstadt ) was a German philosopher and sociologist .

Life

Fischer retired from military service in 1917 due to the consequences of burial as permanently unfit for service ( World War I ) and studied philosophy, history, psychology and indology at the University of Leipzig from 1918 , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1925 he completed his habilitation there for philosophy. Between his doctorate and his habilitation, he made long trips to India (1921) and Spain (1923).

From 1925 to 1938 Fischer was a private lecturer and briefly an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. Scientifically it is assigned to the structural genetic Leipzig School of Cultural Sociology around Hans Freyer and Arnold Gehlen . Politically, he belonged to the national revolutionary circle around Ernst Jünger . There were also connections to Ernst Niekisch .

He emigrated to Norway in 1938 and later to Great Britain. In Oslo he was director of the research department of the Institutt for Samfunnsforsking og Arbeidslære under Ewald Bosse , in Great Britain he lived as a private scholar and traveled to India again several times. In 1949 he taught Western philosophy as a visiting professor at the University of Benares . After his return to Germany in 1956 he received an extraordinary professorship for philosophy of civilization at the University of Munich . After his emigration, Fischer dealt with the sociology and phenomenology of the big city and film.

Fonts (selection)

  • Nietzsche Apostata or the philosophy of scandal . Erfurt 1931.
  • Karl Marx and his relationship to the state and the economy . Jena 1932.
  • The Topicality of Plotinus. About the convergence of science and metaphysics . Munich 1956.
  • The birth of high culture in Egypt and Mesopotamia. The primary draft of human drama . Klett, Stuttgart 1960.
    • Unabridged new edition, Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-548-39017-X .
  • Theory of culture. The cultural force field . Seewald, Stuttgart 1965.
  • The birth of western civilization from the spirit of Roman monasticism . Kösel, Munich 1969.
  • Reason and civilization, anti-politics . Seewald, Stuttgart 1971.
  • Lenin. The Machiavell of the East. [1933] Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-469-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The principle of opposites in Jakob Böhme
  2. ^ Habilitation thesis: Hegel's method and its necessity for the history of ideas
  3. ↑ Information on the biography is based, unless otherwise stated, on: Ernst Hugo Fischer in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
  4. ^ According to a letter from Hugo Fischer to Ernest and Ann Sophy Manheim in Chicago, Ill. London, on April 4, 1938 - Transliteration and commentary by Reinhard Müller (PDF file; 45 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Ernst Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1975
Place of death Ohlstadt