Felix Grayeff

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Felix Grayeff (* 1906 in Königsberg , † 1981 in London ) was a German - New Zealand classical philologist and philosopher .

biography

Grayeff studied classical philology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Königsberg, among others . After receiving his doctorate in July 1930 with Wolfgang Schadewaldt , Grayeff taught Latin and Greek at grammar schools in Berlin until this was no longer possible for him as a Jew during the Nazi era after 1933. In 1938 he emigrated to Australia with his wife Marianne Zander, where he taught at St. Peter's College, Adelaide . A year later he moved to the University of Otago in Dunedin , New Zealand, where he taught German language and literature until 1952.

Among Grayeff's philosophical writings, the books on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the school of Aristotle have received particular attention. Reference is still made to his thesis in the Aristotle book that the author of the writings of the Corpus Aristotelicum was actually not Aristotle but his school, insofar as the writings of Aristotle were updated, supplemented and compiled there. His posthumously published autobiography with memories of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers is also an important source of university history because Grayeff can report on the German and British-influenced New Zealand system from a comparative perspective.

Fonts

  • Investigations into the meaning of signs in the Greek epic. Inaugural dissertation, Philosophical Faculty, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i. Br. 1930.
  • Interpretation and presentation of the theoretical philosophy of Kant. A commentary on the basic parts of the Critique of Pure Reason. Meiner, Hamburg 1951. 2nd edition with a subject index by Eberhard Heller, ibid 1977.
    • English edition: Kant's theoretical philosophy. A commentary to the central part of the Critique of pure reason . Translated by David Walford. Manchester University Press, Manchester / Barnes & Noble, New York 1970.
  • Henry the Eighth. The life of a king - the fate of an empire . Claassen, Hamburg 1961.
  • Try about thinking. Meiner, Hamburg 1966.
  • Aristotle and his school. An inquiry into the history of the peripatos. With a commentary on Metaphysics Z, H, Λ and Θ. Duckworth, London 1974.
  • Migrant scholar. An autobiography. Edited by Eleonore Engelhardt and Albert Raffelt (= writings from the Freiburg University Library, Volume 11). University Library, Freiburg i. Br. 1986. 2nd edition, ibid. 2003 ( online ).

literature

  • Grajew (Grayeff), Felix , in: Joseph Walk (Ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 125.
  • Friedrich Voit: Karl Wolfskehl. Life and work in exile. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, pp. 323, 687, 708.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugh Lawson-Tancred: Introduction. In: Aristotle: The Metaphysics. Penguin, London 1998, p. Xlii; Andreas Pronay: What is the difference between ὕλη and ὑποχείμενον? On the problem of two basic Aristotelian concepts. In: Archive for the history of concepts. Volume 49, 2007, pp. 31-52, here p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Grayeff, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grajew, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-New Zealand classical philologist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH 1981
Place of death London