Fritz Heinemann (philosopher)

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Fritz Heinemann (born February 8, 1889 in Lüneburg , † January 7, 1970 in Oxford ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Heinemann came from a respected Jewish family in Lüneburg. After graduating from the Johanneum Lüneburg , he studied philosophy in Cambridge, Marburg, Munich and Berlin from 1907. In 1912 he received his doctorate with the thesis "The Structure of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Problem of Time". After the First World War he taught mathematics at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium in Berlin. In 1922 he became a lecturer and was associate professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 1930 to 1933 . After losing his teaching license in 1933 , Heinemann went to Amersfoort and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Gabriel Marcel and Nicolai Berdjajew . His further path led him to England via Turkey in 1937. From 1939 to 1956 he taught as a professor at Manchester College, Oxford . From 1957 he returned to Frankfurt as a professor emeritus .

Heinemann is considered a critic of existential philosophy .

The city of Lüneburg honored him posthumously in 1974 with an exhibition and in 1985 by naming the reading room of the council library with his name.

Fonts (selection)

  • Plotinus. 1921.
  • New ways of philosophy. Spirit, Life, Existence 1929.
  • Odysseus or the future of philosophy. 1939.
  • David Hume. 1940.
  • Existential philosophy. 1954. (several editions, translations into many languages)
  • Beyond existentialism. 1957.
  • Philosophy in the 20th century. 1959. (as ed.)
  • Existential Philosophy, Alive or Dead? 1951. (3rd extended edition. 1963)

Web links

literature

  • Heinemann, Fritz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 11: Hein – Hirs. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22691-8 , pp. 25-30.
  • Gerald Kreft, Ulrich Lilienthal: "Exercises in philosophical and medical anthropology". Assumptions about a joint seminar by Walther Riese (1890–1976) and Fritz Heinemann (1889–1970). In: Caris-Petra Heidel (ed.): Naturopathy and Judaism. (= Medicine and Judaism. 9). Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-940529-09-1 , pp. 65-85.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Part 1, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003647-8 .
  2. ^ Johanneum Lüneburg: Fritz Heinemann ( Memento from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Heinemann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1970
Place of death Oxford