Fritz Bamberger (philosopher)

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Fritz Siegfried Bamberger (born January 7, 1902 in Frankfurt am Main ; died September 21, 1984 in New York City ) was a German humanities scholar, educator and journalist.

Life

Bamberger grew up in Gelsenkirchen and graduated from high school in Frankfurt am Main. He studied philosophy and oriental languages ​​in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1923. He researched and taught between 1926 and 1938 at the College for the Science of Judaism . He was involved in the publication of the Moses Mendelsohn commemorative edition, which appeared from 1929.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in the German Reich , he headed the Jewish Teachers Training Institute between 1934 and 1938 and organized the Jewish school system in Berlin . In 1939 he emigrated to the United States , where he initially found employment at the College of Jewish Studies and at the University of Chicago . In 1942 he became editor of Coronet magazine and executive director of Esquire magazine at the same publisher . His mother was deported to the Warsaw Ghetto and died there in 1942 under the conditions of the persecution of the Jews.

Bamberger was professor of intellectual history at the Hebrew Union College New York from 1962 to 1979 . He was Vice President of the Leo Baeck Institute New York since 1955 and held the same position on the North American Board of the World Union for Progressive Judaism .

Bamberger lived in Manhattan and was married to the dramaturge Maria Bamberger. They had two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the origin of the value problem in 19th century philosophy. Part 1: Hermann Lotze . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1924. ( Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , Phil. Diss., 1923)
  • The spiritual figure of Moses Mendelssohn. J. Kauffmann , Frankfurt am Main 1929
  • with others (ed.): Moses Mendelssohn , Gesammelte Schriften , organized on the occasion of d. 200th anniversary of his birthday from the Academy for the Science of Judaism and the Society for the Promotion of the Science of Judaism in association with an honorary committee, with the support of the House of Mendelssohn & Co. Academy, Berlin 1929–1938
  • The system of Maimonides . An analysis of the More Newuchim from the concept of God. Schocken, Berlin 1935
  • Johann Gottfried Herder : sheets of the past. Seals from the oriental legend. [jew. Seals and Fables.] Afterword Bamberger. Schocken, Berlin 1936
  • Jewish figures and their time. A story of the Jewish spirit from Moses to Mendelssohn. [Vorw .: Bamberger], Philo, Berlin 1936
  • Zunz ' conception of history, in American Academy for Jewish Research. Proceedings. Vol. 11, Jerusalem 1941, pp. 1-25
  • Leo Baeck, the man and the idea. Leo Baeck Institute, New York 1958
  • Julius Guttmann , philosopher of Judaism. London 1960
    • in German: Julius Guttmann, Philosopher of Judaism , in Robert Weltsch Hg .: Deutsches Judentum, Aufstieg und Kris. Design, ideas, works. Fourteen monographs. Publication by the Leo Baeck Institute. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1963, pp. 85–119
  • The mind of Nelson Glueck , Cincinnati 1970
Letters
  • "But - all of this is still a long way off ..." 1939 - 1942. FB to Bruno Strauss and Bertha Badt-Strauss, in "Munich Contributions to Jewish History and Culture". Ed. Chair of Jewish History and Culture, Michael Brenner . H. 2, 2013, pp. 42–49 (with subsequent comment by Michael A. Meyer ). Without ISSN. Access

literature

  • Bamberger, Fritz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 326-343.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Ed. Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988 ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century , Askania, Lindhorst 1982 ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. Biographical directory. A representative cross-section. Reimer, Berlin 1982 ISBN 3-496-01012-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the history of this teacher training institute see: Jörgh H. Fehrs: Von der Heidenreutergasse zum Roseneck. Jewish Schools in Berlin 1712-1942 , Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89468-075-X , pp. 207-208
  2. ↑ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies Chicago see English Wikipedia en: Spertus Institute
  3. ↑ Coronet (1936 to 1972) see English Wikipedia en: Coronet (magazine)
  4. ^ Obituary by Maria Bamberger on May 23, 2007 in the New York Times , NYT
personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberger, Fritz Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanities scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1984
Place of death New York City