Friedrich Buchholz (writer)

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Paul Ferdinand Friedrich Buchholz (born February 5, 1768 in Alt Ruppin , † February 24, 1843 in Berlin ) was a German writer . He represented bourgeois , early liberal and Saint-Simonist positions and is considered a pioneer of sociological and positivist thinking in Germany.

Life

Buchholz studied theology and modern languages at the University of Halle from 1785 to 1787 . He then taught at the Brandenburg Knight Academy for twelve years. From 1800 he lived as a writer in Berlin and developed an extremely extensive production of books and articles, especially on social-philosophical, historical and political topics. After just a few years he was considered one of the most influential political publicists in Germany. Politically, he represented early liberal bourgeois positions and particularly fought against the nobility and their privileges.

From 1810 he supported Hardenberg's reform policy as a journalist . In 1815 Buchholz founded his own magazine, which he initially published and edited under the title "Journal for Germany, historical-political content". From 1820 to 1835 he continued it under the title “New monthly for Germany, historical-political content”.

Buchholz proves to be one of the first representatives of sociological thought in Germany in his social-theoretical writings. In addition, he largely adopted the positivism of Auguste Comte and the teachings of Henri de Saint-Simons and the Saint-Simonists and made it known in Germany by translating 40 treatises by Comte, Saint-Simon and his students into German and publishing them in his magazine.

Buchholz represented anti-Jewish resentment in his writings , although his polemics in this regard were often economically motivated. Accordingly, Buchholz also turned against the emancipation of the Jews .

Buchholz's work is still received today .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

(all titles appear here in the contemporary, original spelling)

  • Presentation of a new law of gravitation for the moral world. Unger, Berlin 1802.
  • The new leviathan . Cotta, Tübingen 1805. Reprint with foreword by Rütger Schäfer: Scientia, Aalen 1970, ISBN 3-511-00679-1 .
  • Rome and London or the nature of the next universal monarchy. Cotta, Tübingen 1807.
  • Investigations into the nobility of birth and the possibility of its continuation in the nineteenth century. Berlin, Leipzig 1807.
  • Gallery of Prussian characters. Germania 1808 ( digitized version ). Reprint: Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 1979.
  • Painting of the social condition in the Kingdom of Prussia, until October 14th, 1806. 2 volumes. Berlin, Leipzig 1808.
  • Idea of ​​an arithmetic statecraft with application to the Kingdom of Prussia in its present situation. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1809.
  • Hermes or about the nature of society - with a glimpse into the future. Cotta, Tübingen 1810. Reprint: Ed. Jörn Garber. Scriptor, Kronberg / Taunus 1975, ISBN 3-589-15040-8 .
  • History of the European States since the Peace of Vienna. (Also under the title Historisches Taschenbuch). 22 volumes. Berlin 1814-1837.
  • Philosophical research on the Romans. 3 volumes. Enslin, Berlin 1819.
  • History of Napoleon Bonaparte. 3 volumes. Enslin, Berlin 1827-1829.

Translations

  • Translation by Madame de Staël : About Germany. JJ Mäcken'sche Buchhandlung, Reutlingen 1815 ( digitized ).
  • 40 treatises translated from French. In: New monthly for Germany, historical-political content. Volume 14 (1824) to Volume 48 (1835). Reprinted in: Saint-Simonist texts. Edited and introduced by Rütger Schäfer. 2 volumes. Scientia, Aalen 1975, ISBN 3-511-06920-3 .
  • Translation by Vittorio Alfieri : The Prince and the Sciences. In connection with the German Schiller Society, ed. by Enrica Yvonne Dilk and Helmuth Mojem. With an afterword by Arnaldo Di Benedetto. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0862-6 .

literature

  • Theodor Muther :  Buchholz, Paul Ferdinand Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 480.
  • Kurt Bahrs: Friedrich Buchholz - A Prussian publicist. 1768-1843. (Historical studies, booklet LVII). Berlin 1907, reprint: Vaduz 1965.
  • Hans Gerth: Friedrich Buchholz - Also a beginning of sociology. In: Journal for the entire political science. Volume 110, 1954, pp. 665-692.
  • Wilmont Haacke :  Buchholz, Paul Ferdinand Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 701 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Rütger Schäfer: Friedrich Buchholz - a forgotten forerunner of sociology. A historical and bibliographical study of the first representative of positivism and Saint-Simonism in Germany. (Göppingen Academic Contributions, No. 59). 2 volumes. Kümmerle, Göppingen 1972, ISBN 3-87452-159-1 .
  • Jörn Garber: Political revolution and industrial evolution: reform strategies of Prussian Saint-Simonism (Friedrich Buchholz). In: Otto Büsch, Monika Neugebauer-Wölk (ed.): Prussia and the revolutionary challenge since 1789. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1991, ISBN 3-11-012684-2 , pp. 301–330.
  • Jörn Garber: From the naturalistic human history (Georg Forster) to sociological positivism (Friedrich Buchholz). In: Jörn Garber, Tanja van Hoorn (Hrsg.): Nature - People - Culture. Georg Forster in the scientific field of his time. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2006, ISBN 978-3-86525-017-9 , pp. 53-78.
  • Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: "Where the rabble makes sense ..." The feud between Buchholz and Gentz. In: Journal for the history of ideas. Volume III / 4, 2009, pp. 33-46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: The Invention of Contemporary History. Historiography and journalism between the Enlightenment and the pre-March period. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. 192 ff.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Handbook of Antisemitism . Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Volume 3: Terms, Theories, Ideologies. de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 96
  3. ↑ Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: "Where the rabble makes sense ..." The feud between Buchholz and Gentz. In: Journal for the history of ideas. Volume III / 4, 2009, pp. 33-46.
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchholz, Paul Ferdinand Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Ruppin
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1843
Place of death Berlin