Georg Siegmund

Georg Siegmund (born June 25, 1903 , † 1989 ) was a German theologian and philosopher.

Life

He studied biology, theology and medicine ( doctorate to Dr. phil. The teaching of the principle of individuation with Suarez in Breslau 1927). After being ordained a priest in Vidnava in 1928, he was born in 1934 with the work The natural belief in God. Psychological studies on his development and his build-up to Dr. theol. PhD. He was teacher in Wroclaw, Nysa , Opole and Brzeg . From 1946 to 1970 he taught as a professor of philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological University of Fulda . He was editor and editor of the journal Philosophisches Jahrbuch . Paul VI appointed him in 1963 as papal secret chamberlain . In 1982 he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology . His book Nietzsche, the Atheist and Antichrist was banned in the Third Reich and could not appear again until 1946. In 1949 he tried to re-establish the teleological proof of God. His natural philosophy was shaped by Hans Driesch and Hedwig Conrad-Martius .

Fonts (selection)

• The Sick Man, Medical Anthropology . Fulda 1951, OCLC 782007639 .
• Man in his existence . Freiburg im Breisgau 1953, OCLC 997457102 .
• Animal and human . Frankfurt am Main 1958, OCLC 463213178 .
• The belief of primitive man . Bern 1962, OCLC 442463400 .
• Nietzsche's report of God's death . Berlin 1964, OCLC 720243774 .
• God in sight? Aschaffenburg 1966, OCLC 456308846 .
• The world as God's trace . Buxheim 1980, ISBN 3786500665 .
• Faith in God and mental health . Leutesdorf 1984, ISBN 3779408988 .

literature

• Aloys Wenzl : Georg Siegmund on his 60th birthday, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 71 (1963) 207f.
• Johannes Gründel : Georg Siegmund (1903–1989) , in: Silesian Church in Life Pictures. Volume 6 . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1992, pp. 234-236, ISBN 3-7995-7115-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ G. Kahl-Furthmann: New researches on Nietzsche's philosophy of religion, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 59 (1949) 355–365, here 355.
2. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 59 (1949) 208ff.