Friedrich Jonas

Friedrich Jonas (born June 20, 1926 in Berlin ; † December 7, 1968 in Jugenheim in Rheinhessen ) was a German sociologist who became known far beyond specialist circles with his four-volume history of sociology in paperback format.

Life

After high school and military service Jonas studied at the University of Berlin economics and acquired in 1949 the title of graduate economist . After further studies, including sociology, at the Free University of Berlin , he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD . In 1951/52 he studied on a scholarship from the American government at the University of Illinois . Jonas then worked first as a research assistant at the FU, then as a research assistant to Erich Schneider at the University of Bonn . From 1954 to 1960 he worked for industry and headed the economic department of Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen. He then became Arnold Gehlen's assistant at the administrative college in Speyer . From 1962, Jonas was a research assistant at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund , where he completed his habilitation in 1964 . In 1965 he became professor of sociology at the University of Mainz . He died in a traffic accident three years later.

History of sociology

Jonas initially published writings on questions of political economy, but then turned to sociology and wrote the four-volume history of sociology , some of which were published posthumously and which were reprinted several times up until the 1980s, also as a two-volume study edition. Jonas' History of Sociology was published in French in 1991. In it he draws an arc of the history of ideas from the Enlightenment of the 18th century to Talcott Parsons .

Fonts (selection)

• Social philosophy of the industrial working world , Stuttgart: Enke 1960
• The self-understanding of economic theory , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1964
• Arnold Gehlen's institutional doctrine , Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1966
• History of sociology, part 1., Enlightenment, liberalism, idealism: With source texts , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1968 (rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie)
• History of Sociology, Part 2., Socialism, Positivism, Historicism: With source texts , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1968 (rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie)
• History of Sociology, Part 3., French and Italian Sociology: With source texts , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1969 (rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie)
• History of Sociology, Part 4., German and American Sociology: With source texts , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1969 (rowohlts deutsche enzyklopädie)
• Histoire de la sociologie: des Lumières à la théorie du social , Paris: Larousse 1991.

literature

• Wolfgang Lipp : Jonas, Friedrich. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd Edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 198 f.
• Henning Ottmann : Review of the book Die Institutionlehre Arnold Gehlen , in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 86 (1979) 151–156.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Jonas in the catalog of the German National Library