Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor

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The Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel has been a reminder of the religious-philosophical work and educational work of Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), the great Jewish son of the city of Kassel , since 1987 . The idea to set up this visiting professorship came about during the International Franz Rosenzweig Congress held at the university on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Franz Rosenzweig in 1986 , which was under the patronage of Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and to which over 70 speakers from all over the world had traveled.

The Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship - sponsored by the University of Kassel - has so far been awarded annually in the summer semester to philosophers, historians, literary scholars or religious scholars who were persecuted by National Socialism for anti-Semitic reasons and driven from their homeland and therefore their academic careers had to continue or begin in non-German-speaking countries and, in their research, also specifically dealt with questions of European-Jewish history, culture and education and therefore in their courses at Kassel University again something of the Jewish heritage destroyed by National Socialism able to make conscious.

The Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship was headed in this form by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik for twenty years until his retirement. In the meantime, it is being continued in a somewhat modified form, so that younger scientists whose research relates to the topic of the destroyed Jewish heritage in European intellectual history can also take up this visiting professorship.

List of visiting professors

  • 1987: Peter Fuss (* 1932 in Berlin), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in St. Louis.
  • 1988: Leonard H. Ehrlich , (* 1924 in Vienna; † 2011 in Amherst / USA), Professor for Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
  • 1989: Joachim Israel (* 1920 in Karlsruhe; † 2001 in Halmstad / Sweden), professor for sociology and philosophy at the University of Lund / Sweden
  • 1990: Eveline Goodman-Thau (* 1934 in Vienna), professor for the philosophy of religion at the University of Vienna, private lecturer at the University of Kassel
  • 1991: William W. Hallo (* 1928 in Kassel; † 2015 New Haven / USA), Prof. for Assyriology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1992: Zvi H. Rosen (* 1925 in Danzig; † 2014 in Tel Aviv), Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University
  • 1993: Jacob Goldberg (* 1924 in Lodz; † November 15, 2011 in Jerusalem), Professor of Eastern European History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 1994: Benyamin Maoz (* 1929 in Kassel; † 2014 in Tel Aviv), Prof. for Psychiatry and Social Psychotherapy at the Ben Gurion University of Beer Sheva
  • 1995: Rivka Horwitz (* 1926 in Bad Homburg; † 2007 in Jerusalem), Prof. for Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the Ben Gurion University of Beer Sheva
  • 1996: Hans Keilson (* 1909 in Bad Freienwalde an der Oder; † 2011 in Hilversum), psychoanalyst and writer in Bussum
  • 1997: Emil Fackenheim (* 1916 in Halle; † 2003 in Jerusalem), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 1998: Rafael N. Rosenzweig (* 1922 in Frankfurt am Main; † 2001 in Forch near Zurich), agricultural economist and advisor to the Israeli and US governments
  • 1999: Albert H. Friedlander (* 1927 in Berlin; † 2004 in London), rabbi, professor for Jewish history and dean of Leo Baeck College in London
  • 2000: Kurt Rudolf Fischer (* 1922 in Vienna; † 2014 in Lancaster / USA), professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in Millersville and honorary professor. at the University of Vienna
  • 2001: Gerda Elata-Alster (* 1930 in Vienna), professor for literary studies at the Ben Gurion University of Beer Sheva
  • 2002: Feliks Tych (* 1929 in Warsaw; † 2015 ibid), Professor of History at the Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
  • 2002: Ze'ev Levy (* 1921 in Dresden; † 2010 in Hama'apil / Israel), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa
  • 2003: Chaim Schatzker (* 1928 in Lemberg / Poland; † in Haifa), Prof. for Modern Jewish History at the University of Haifa
  • 2004: Mihály Vajda (* 1935 in Budapest), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Debrecen / Hungary
  • 2005: Michael Löwy (* 1938 in São Paulo), Directeur de recherche for the sociology of religion at the Center National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris
  • 2006: Carl S. Ehrlich (* 1956 in Amherst / USA), Professor of Biblical Archeology at the University of Toronto
  • 2007: Moshe Zimmermann (* 1943 in Jerusalem), Professor of German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2008: Karol Sauerland (* 1936 in Moscow), professor and head of the chair for German studies at the University of Thorn / Poland
  • 2009: Harry Redner (* 1937 in Tlumacz, Galicia), Professorial Fellow for Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne / Australia
  • 2010: Jakob Hessing (* 1944 in Lyssowce, Upper Silesia), professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 2004 head of the German department there
  • 2012: Liliane Weissberg (* 1953 in Vienna), Professor of German Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia / USA
  • 2013: Frank Stern (* 1944 in Tapiau, East Prussia), German historian and cultural scientist
  • 2014: Philip V. Bohlman (* 1952 in Wisconsin, USA), Professor of Music at the University of Chicago.
  • 2015: Doreet LeVitte-Harten , Israeli art and culture historian
  • 2016: Micha Brumlik , Swiss philosopher and educationalist
  • 2017: Hanna Liss , Judaist at Heidelberg University
  • 2018: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek , Judaist and art historian from Vienna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Kassel News of April 9, 2013: Historian Frank Stern takes on the Rosenzweig guest professorship ( memento of the original from April 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kassel.de
  2. ↑ University of Kassel Nachrichten Rosenzweig Professorship to musicologist Philip Bohlman ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 3, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kassel.de
  3. ↑ Sebastian Mense: Lecture on Zionism and Science Fiction: Doreet LeVitte new Rosenzweig professor. University of Kassel, press release from April 21, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on April 21, 2015.
  4. ↑ University of Kassel, press release of March 2, 2016 ( Memento of the original of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kassel.de
  5. ^ Sebastian Mense: Kassel Rosenzweig professorship to Judaist Hanna Liss. University of Kassel, press release from March 27, 2017 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on March 27, 2017.

literature

  • Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Hrsg.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel 1987–1998. Kassel semester books - Studia Cassellana. Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2518-0 .
  • Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Confrontations with the destroyed Jewish legacy. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures (1999–2005). Kassel Semester Books - Studia Cassellana 13. Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-044-3 .
  • Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): The philosopher Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). International Congress Kassel 1986. Volume I: The Challenge of Jewish Learning. Volume II: The new thinking and its dimensions. Freiburg / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-495-47655-5 .
  • Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Franz Rosenzweig's "new thinking". International Congress Kassel 2004. Volume I: Self-limiting thinking - in philosophos. Volume II: Experienced Revelation - in theologos. Freiburg / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-495-48185-0 .
  • Eva Schulz-Jander, Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Ed.): Franz Rosenzweig - Religious Philosopher from Kassel Kassel 2011. ISBN 978-3-933617-47-7 .

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