Erwin Reisner

This article describes the theologian Erwin Reisner. For the artist Erwin Reisner see Rax (Jennersdorf municipality) # Personalities .

Erwin Reisner (born March 19, 1890 in Vienna , † June 12, 1966 in Berlin ) was an Austrian theologian , professor of systematics and philosophy, theater critic, cultural advisor and librarian.

Life

Erwin Reisner was the oldest of three children of a councilor in the Vienna Ministry of Agriculture. After his parents' divorce in 1900, Reisner was sent to boarding school. At the age of 15 he entered a cadet school to become an artilleryman . He entered the First World War as a lieutenant and was dismissed as a captain . In 1916 he married Emilie Wagner. His son Herbert was born in 1919.

After the First World War, Reisner worked as a theater critic , cultural advisor and librarian . In 1923 his first collection of poems, The Blue Cup, was published . In 1924 his wife inherited a fortune that allowed Reisner to concentrate fully on his philosophical studies. In 1927 his first philosophical work, The Self-Sacrifice of Knowledge, appeared. In it he builds a bridge between philosophy and theology , which he expands in his later works. Although he never had a university had visited excerpts of his book were familiar, recognizing, acknowledging the dissertation accepted and Reisner in 1932 in Marburg to Dr. phil. PhD. He had lived with his family in Transylvania , Romania since the end of the First World War . From there he was expelled in 1935 because of his Austrian citizenship . He returned to Vienna. Having become largely destitute, Reisner was only able to keep his family afloat with sermons and Bible studies. From 1937 he lived in Berlin .

The Demon and His Image appeared in 1947 and Reisner was appointed professor of systematics and philosophy at the Church University in Berlin . However, the long years of hardship had left physical marks. In 1956 he had to stop lecturing due to illness. His last book The Jews and the German Reich. was published in 1966, a few days before his death.

Works

• The blue cup . Poems, Sibiu 1923
• Salvation in the Spirit . The philosophical confession of an ignoramus, Vienna 1924
• The self-sacrifice of knowledge . Reflections on the cultural task of philosophy, Munich 1927
• The story as the fall of man and the way to judgment . Foundation of a Christian metaphysics of history, Munich 1929
• Know, recognize, acknowledge . An investigation into the meaning of intuition and symbol in dialectical theology, Munich 1932
• The Church of the Cross and German Destiny . Munich 1934
• The Christian message through the ages . Munich 1935
• The hour of Israel . Vienna 1937
• The tree of life . An interpretation of Genesis 2.8 to 3.24, Munich 1937
• The letter to the Hebrews . Reflections, Munich 1938
• The word of revelation as a parable . Berlin 1946
• Revelation and historical science . Berlin 1947
• The demon and his image . Berlin 1947
• The book with the seven seals . Göttingen 1949
• Faith, hope, love . A small philosophy of Christian virtues, Hamburg 1954
• On the primordial sense of the sexes , Berlin 1954
• Illness and recovery . A theological-philosophical meaning, Berlin 1956
• The encounterless person . A Critique of Historical Reason, Berlin 1964
• The Jews and the German Reich . Zurich 1966

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The spiritual Germany in view of the Jewish question. Ed. Oliver Humberg, Stephan Hötzel. Publisher as published by Velbert-Neviges 1994 (contains von Reisner from the book from 1966 the following chapters: Sacrum Imperium / Imperial Idea and Founding of an Empire / The People of the Empire / Empire and Church / The Jews in the Middle Ages / Crisis and Disintegration of the Holy Empire / The Reformation / Austria and Prussia / The Second Reich - Place of death: p. 194)
2. ↑ Peter Orban, preliminary remark in: The demon and his picture , Frankfurt 1986, 10–12

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Reisner in the catalog of the German National Library