Fritz Medicus (philosopher)

Fritz Medicus

Fritz Georg Adolf Medicus (born April 23, 1876 in Stadtlauringen ; † January 12, 1956 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was a German-Swiss philosopher .

Medicus studied theology and philosophy at the universities of Jena, Kiel, Strasbourg and Halle. In 1898 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Kant's aesthetics and non-Euclidean geometry at the University of Jena . In 1901 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle with the text "Kant's Philosophy of History".

From 1911 to 1946 he was a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich .

Medicus published an eight-volume edition of the works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte . He was also the editor of the "Outline of the Philosophical Sciences", within which Ernst Cassirer's book "The Philosophy of Enlightenment" appeared in 1932 .

Works

• Spruce life . Leipzig 1914.
• Basic questions of aesthetics: lectures and essays . Jena 1917.
• Freedom of will and its limits . 1926.
• On the truth, the good and the beautiful: treatises on cultural philosophy . Eugen Rentsch Verlag, Erlenbach-Zuerich 1943.
• The mythological in religion. A philosophical inquiry . Eugen Rentsch Verlag, Erlenbach-Zurich [1944].
• Humanity. The truth as experience and realization . Artemis publishing house, 1951.
• Of the timeless in time . Artemis Publishing House, 1954.

literature

• Medicus, Fritz. In: Willy Keller (editor): Swiss Biographical Archive . Volume 1. Zurich / Lugano / Vaduz 1952, p. 98.
• Erich Fuchs:  Medicus, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 599 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Peter A. Schmid: Medicus, Fritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Medicus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Fritz Medicus in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• www.ethbib.ethz.ch/aktuell/galerie/medicus/