Günther Schulemann

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Gravestone of Günther Schulemann in the Loschwitz cemetery in Dresden with Yin and Yang signs in the middle of the cross

Günther Schulemann (born August 26, 1889 in Neisse in the province of Silesia , † June 15, 1964 in Dresden ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and professor of philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau .

Life

Günther Schulemann studied in Berlin , Freiburg im Breisgau and Breslau and received his doctorate in 1913 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau in the field of scholastic philosophy about Thomas Aquinas . In 1918 he was ordained a priest and worked at the Breslau Cathedral as a student pastor and cathedral vicar. He submitted his habilitation thesis in 1923 at the University of Breslau. From 1924 he worked at this university as a private lecturer and from 1930 as an associate professor of philosophy. With the philosopher Edith Stein he was in an intellectual exchange about questions of faith.

Due to his good knowledge of the Tibetan and Chinese languages, he maintained scientific contacts in Tibet and China and knew the cultures of both countries. However, he declined to appeal to the Fu Jen University in Beijing from. In 1939 Günther Schulemann was dismissed from teaching at the university by the National Socialists. From 1934 he lived in Brückenberg in the Giant Mountains (today Karpacz ), where he was employed as a parish administrator, and was friends with the writer Gerhart Hauptmann, who lived in Agnetendorf . In July 1946, after Gerhart Hauptmann's death, he moved with his relatives and other intellectuals (including the writers Gerhart Pohl and Peter Alfons Steiniger ) from Silesia in the so-called “Gerhart Hauptmann Special Train” from Hirschberg to Berlin. He saw no more job opportunities in what was now Polish Silesia and preferred to move to what was then the Soviet occupation zone . In doing so, he managed to save many of his books and scientific treatises.

He then worked in the service of the diocese of Meissen , where he looked after the Wachwitz Chapel (today owned by the Templar Archiconvent ). His lectures and sermons, which were inspired by a global spirit and west-east humanism, were also attended by artists such as Josef Hegenbarth , Georg Nerlich , Max Lachnit and Friedrich Press . He was thus a bridge builder to distant worlds and cultures. In 1952, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Münster for the integration of Asian religions and cultures into Western philosophy .

He died in 1964. His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery in Dresden-Loschwitz.

Works by Günther Schulemann

  • The causal principle in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Münster 1915 (dissertation at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau, 1913)
  • History of the Dalai Lamas. Winter, Heidelberg (1911)
  • Core of all philosophy. Frankes Buchh., Habelschwerdt (1923)
  • From inner life. Borgmeyer, Breslau (1927)
  • The doctrine of the transcendental in scholastic philosophy. Meiner-V., Leipzig (1929)
  • Aesthetics. Borgmeyer, Breslau (1930)
  • Buddha, life and teaching. Borgmeyer, Breslau (1931)
  • The Buddha's message of the lotus of the good law. Herder, Freiburg (1937)
  • Why believe Franke, Breslau (1940)
  • Path of spiritualization. St. Benno V., Leipzig (1953)
  • History of the Dalai Lamas. Harrassowitz, Leipzig (1958)
  • Sermon to Deaf Ears (1959)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucas Müller: Always “a spiritual bridge builder” - on the 50th anniversary of Prof. Günther Schulemann's death, DNN, No. 137 of June 16, 2014, p. 14
  2. ↑ Der Hauptmann-Transport , documentary film about the transfer of the poet Gerhart Hauptmann, who died in 1946
  3. ↑ Lucas Müller: Bridge Builders in Distant Worlds, Day of the Lord, No. 24 of June 15, 2014, p. 16

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personal data
SURNAME Schulemann, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1964
Place of death Dresden