Gerhard Funke
Gerhard Funke (born May 21, 1914 in Leopoldshall ; † January 22, 2006 in Eutin ) was a German philosopher .
Career
Gerhard Funke attended high school in Dessau . During his studies in philosophy, psychology, history, German and Romance studies, he heard from Erich Rothacker , Ernst Robert Curtius and Heinrich Lützeler at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . There were also study visits to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with lectures by Martin Heidegger and at the University of Jena with Bruno Bauch . With a thesis on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , he was in 1938 a doctorate .
He then went to the Sorbonne and the École normal supérieure in Paris as a lecturer . In 1939 he worked as a lecturer in Pamplona and Santander . During the Second World War he was wounded several times as an officer. In 1947 he completed his habilitation on Maine de Biran . He then worked as a private lecturer in Bonn until 1957 . After a year (from 1958 to 1959) as a professor in Saarbrücken, he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , where he taught until his retirement . From 1965 to 1967 he was rector of the university. In Mainz he founded the Kant research center. In 1974, 1981 and 1990 he was responsible for the implementation of international Kant congresses. He has been visiting professor in Argentina, Bolivia, India, Japan, Puerto Rico, the USA and Venezuela.
Funke was a member of the board of directors of the Kant Society , co-editor of the Kant studies and a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences . In 1988/89 he was deputy chairman of the Göttingen working group .
His publications cover a wide range of philosophical topics. These include a collection of essays “Zur transzendentalen Phenomenologie” (1957), monographs on “Habit” (1958), “Phenomenology - Metaphysics or Method?” (1968), “From Kant's Topicality” (1979) or the pseudonym “Bestiarium philosophicum” "(1976).
He spent the last years of his life in Bosau am Plöner See. His private library is closed to the historical collections of the Central and State Library in Berlin .
Honors
- Vice-President of Société européenne de culture (1964–1972), board member 1972–1993
- Member of the Institut international de philosophie , Paris (1972)
- Member of the Centro Superiore de Logica e Science Comparate (1972)
- President of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Kant Congress
- Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (1975)
- Member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (1986)
- Chairman of the Husserl Symposium Mainz (1988)
- Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Honorary Chairman of the Kant Society
- Professor hc at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos , Lima
- Greek Aristotle Medal (1978)
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1979)
- Medal of the Collège de France (1984)
literature
- Gisela Müller (ed.): The critical business of reason - Symposium in honor of Gerhard Funke . Bonn: Bouvier, 1995. ISBN 3-416-02553-9 .
- Ernst Wolfgang Orth: Obituary for Gerhard Funke . Kant studies. Volume 97, Issue 2, pages 135-137.
- Konrad Fuchs : Funke, Gerhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 483-488.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Funke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog of the Kant Collection ( Memento from August 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: The concept of possibility in Leibniz's system .
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: Maine de Biran - philosophical and political thinking between the ancien régime and the bourgeois kingdom in France .
- ^ Catalog European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spark, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leopoldshall |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 2006 |
| Place of death | Eutin |