Friedrich Wilhelm Korff
Friedrich-Wilhelm Korff (born December 29, 1939 in Hohenlimburg ) is a German philosopher and writer .
Life
Friedrich Wilhelm Korff comes from a family of doctors. After studying German literature and philosophy at the Universities of Basel and Heidelberg he was in Basel to the doctor of philosophy in 1967 his doctorate . 1974 followed the habilitation at the Technical University of Hanover . From 1978 he taught philosophy at the University of Hanover as an associate professor and from 1980 as a full professor ; his specialties are the philosophy of antiquity and the 19th century . In addition to his scientific work, Korff has also emerged as a writer of narrative works and essays . In 1982 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .
Korff lives in Wennigsen today .
honors and awards
- 1984 Prize for the Hermann Hesse Prize
- 1985 Lower Saxony Art Prize for Literature
- 1985 Fellow of the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg .
Others
In a work from 2008, Korff claims to have unraveled the construction principle of the ancient Egyptian pyramids and thus made a fundamental contribution to pyramid research. While some Egyptologists take the work seriously, most of them flatly reject Korff's theses.
Works
- Diastole and systole , Bern 1969
- The cataract of San Miguel , Munich 1974
- Dragon dance , Munich [u. a.] 1981
- The comical Kierkegaard , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 1982
- Ausege , Munich [u. a.] 1983
- The philosopher and the woman , Tübingen 1995
- The sound of the pyramids: Plato and the Great Pyramid , Hildesheim, 2008
- The musical construction principle of the Egyptian pyramids. An obituary for contemporary German Egyptology , Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 2015
Editing
- Honest thinking , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1981
- Against the absolute claim , Würzburg 1998
literature
- Hans Lenk (Ed.): Languages of Philosophy , Munich 2001
Web links
- Friedrich Wilhelm Korff in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Korff on the website of the Westphalian Literature Office
- Short biography ( memento from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the University of Hanover
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Korff in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The sound for the eye . The daily newspaper, December 17, 2008
- ↑ Outsider shocked the professional world with his pyramid theory. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 15, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korff, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Korff, Friedrich-Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenlimburg |