Ferdinand Sassen
Ferdinand Léon Rudolphe Sassen (born August 13, 1894 in Nijmegen , † September 16, 1971 in Lugano ) was a Dutch philosopher.
Sassen received his doctorate from the University of Friborg with a thesis on plotin . He was a lecturer in Rolduc from 1919 to 1931 . From 1929 to 1945 he taught Greek and Roman philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen , from 1946 to 1964 at the University of Leiden . He saw himself as a progressive neo-Thomist. In Germany he was best known for his essay Boethius - Teacher of the Middle Ages (originally Studia Catholica 14, 1938). The Dutch philosophy professor Struyker Boudier published a biography of Sassen in 1997 with the title A man of mind. Chapter on the life and work of Ferdinand Sassen .
literature
- CEM Struyker Boudier, Een man van de geest. Hoofdstukken over leven en Werk van Ferdinand Sassen. Nijmegen 1997.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Sassen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grahame Lock in: Phenomenology of life from the animal soul to the human mind, Vol. 1. Dordrecht 2007. XIII.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sassen, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sassen, Ferdinand Léon Rudolphe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nijmegen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th September 1971 |
| Place of death | Lugano |