Eva Cassirer

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Eva Cassirer (born January 28, 1920 in Berlin ; † September 19, 2009 in Calvià , Mallorca ) was a German philosopher , astronomer and art collector. She was an honorary professor at the Technical University of Berlin. She was posthumously awarded the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations in 2011 .

Life

Georg Kolbe, Eva's head, bronze, 1922/23.

Eva Cassirer was the daughter of the Jewish industrialist Alfred Cassirer and his wife Hannah, née Sotschek (1887–1974), and she was the niece of Ernst Cassirer and Tilla Durieux . The parents divorced a few years after Eva's birth and the mother took on Leo Blumenreich's family name in her second marriage to Leo Blumenreich in 1924 . Eva, who grew up with her mother and stepfather Leo Blumenreich in the same household in a villa in Grunewald Wildpfad 28, kept her maiden name. As early as 1922/23, the sculptor Georg Kolbe created a bronze head for Eva Cassirer on behalf of her father. Her biological father died in 1932 and left behind, among other things, an art collection with oriental handicrafts and Islamic carpets, which he had loaned to the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin; this loan was later converted into a donation by Eva Cassirer.

Eve was raised in a Christian way by her mother. Despite her Jewish father, she was not necessarily labeled as Jewish during the Nazi era . Eva and her mother hid several “illegal” persons in the basement of their villa who evaded registration by the police authorities. In addition, Eva's former classmate Elisabeth "Lilo" Jacoby was accepted into the household after Eva found her on the street. Elisabeth's parents, the journalist for the Berliner Tageblatt Bruno Jacoby (* 1879) and his wife Ella Jacoby, born Davidsohn (1889–1942), were deported to Riga on September 5, 1942 . Elisabeth Jacoby and her brother Hans were not abducted together with their parents as forced laborers at the Siemens & Halske factory in Berlin . However, after the siblings were supposed to report for deportation in January 1943 in Grosse Hamburger Strasse , the main street of the Jewish quarter, they initially hid with their former nanny. After the building was destroyed by a bomb, they lived on the street and hid in ruins. During this time Elisabeth lost sight of her brother at some point. In Haus Blumenreich, Elisabeth Jacoby was presented as a maid to guests. Eva Cassirer had obtained false identity papers for her with the name “Liselotte Lehmann”. Part of the villa was rented to Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe , an employee at the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , who pretended not to notice the illegally housed people. Elisabeth Jacoby survived the Holocaust thanks to the help .

Eva Cassirer studied philosophy and astronomy in the United States and England and received her PhD from the University of London in 1957 with the work The Concept of Time: An Investigation into the Time of Psychology with Special Reference to Memory and a Comparison with the Time of Physics . The philosophy of the time remained her main focus even after that.

From 1965 to 1975 she was a senior lecturer in the philosophy of science at the University of St Andrews . Later she was an honorary professor for philosophy at the Technical University of Berlin . She was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . In 1975 she translated John Langshaw Austin's book Sense and Sensibilia from English. In 1999 she translated George Pitcher's book The Dog That Came from the Wild. The adventure of a friendship from America.

Because of their help for the illegally housed people in the Third Reich, Eva Cassirer and her mother were posthumously recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations on January 11, 2011 .

Fonts

  • The Concept of Time: An Investigation into the Time of Psychology with Special Reference to Memory and a Comparison with the Time of Physics. Dissertation at the University of London, 1957.
  • Review of: elements of physical semantics. By Hubert Schleichert . (Vienna & Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 1966. Pp. 156 Price DM 14.50.). In: The Philosophical Quarterly , 19th vol., Ed. 74, January 1969, pp. 86-88.
  • Review of: Weyer EM and Fisher, R., Eds. (1967). Interdisciplinary perspectives of time. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 128, 367-915. In: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , Volume 19, Issue 4, February 1969, pp. 359-371.
  • On the Reality of Becoming. In: The Study of Time. Ed. by JT Fraser , FC Haber and GH Müller , Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York 1972, pp. 345-353. ISBN 978-3-642-65389-6 ; also published in Studium Generale , 24 (1971), pp. 1-9. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • Sense and Sensory Experience , German translation by John Langshaw Austin's Sense and Sensibilia , Reclam, Ditzingen (1975), 1984. ISBN 978-3-15-029803-9

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost (ed.): Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . Berlin June 29, 2003, p. 4th f .
  2. ^ Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers: Entrepreneurs, Art Dealers, Philosophers. H. Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67715-1 , p. 128.
  3. ^ Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers: Entrepreneurs, Art Dealers, Philosophers. H. Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67715-1 , p. 129.
  4. ^ A b Jacoby, Bruno. In: Memorial Book. Victim of the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945. Volume 2: G-K. Federal Archives, 2006, p. 1505.
  5. ↑ Recognition of rescuers from Berlin. The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation , April 12, 2011, accessed September 30, 2018 .
  6. ^ The Berlin Righteous solidarity stories in Third Reich's Germany. Gariwo.net, April 22, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b The Righteous Among The Nations: Sotschek Family. Yad Vashem , accessed September 30, 2018 .
  8. ^ Cassirer, On the Reality of Becoming. In: JT Fraser, FC Haber, GH Müller (Eds.): The Study of Time: Proceedings of the First Conference of the International of Time. Oberwolfach, Springer 1972, pp. 345-353
  9. ↑ Cassirer, Eva. In: International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers. Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University, 1974, p. 210.
  10. ↑ Ernest Kay (Ed.): The World Who's Who of Women in Education . 1978th ​​edition. International Biographical Center, Cambridge 1978, p. 80 .
  11. ↑ Cassiere, Eva. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. Volume 1: A – J. Saur, 2003, p. 462.
  12. ↑ John L. Austin: Sense and Sensory Experience . Translated by Eva Cassirer. Reclam, Ditzingen (1975) 1984 ISBN 978-3-15-029803-9
  13. ^ G. Pitcher, The Dog Who Came From the Wild, hardcover, 1999.
  14. ^ Book Reviews. The Philosophical Quarterly, University of St Andrews.
  15. ↑ Reviews. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Oxford Academic.
personal data
SURNAME Cassirer, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2009
Place of death Calvià , Mallorca