Gerhard Höhn

Gerhard Höhn (born May 16, 1939 in Düsseldorf ) is a German literary scholar who has devoted his literary work in recent decades to conveying the intellectual culture of Germany and France.

life and work

Höhn attended the Humboldt Gymnasium in Düsseldorf until he graduated from high school in 1959. He then studied German and philosophy in Munich, Bonn and Paris. In 1962 he moved to Paris, where he received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1968 with a thesis on Hegel's critique of the reflective philosophy of subjectivity.

From 1970 he took up a teaching position as an assistant and lecturer at the Philosophical Department of the University of Caen (Normandy). Since the late 1960s he has published in German and French media.

From the beginning of the 1980s he dealt intensively and continuously with the person and work of Heinrich Heine , the result of which was the voluminous (590 pages) Heine manual, which was highly praised by the professional world .

In 2015 he returned from his home in Barbizon near Paris to his native city of Düsseldorf.

Fonts (selection)

• Heine manual. Time - person - work . 1st edition 1987, 2nd edition 1997, 3rd edition 2004. Metzler, Stuttgart – Weimar, ISBN 3-476-01965-9 .
• Hegelian dialectics and modern logic. Answer to Günter Posch's "Hegelian Dialectic and Dialectical Nonsense" . In: conceptus, magazine for philosophy. year III, No. 3 and 4, 1969.
• A new Jacobi picture . In: Journal for Philosophical Research. Volume 24, Issue 1. 1970.
• The birth of nihilism and the rebirth of the logos. FH Jacobi and Hegel as critics of philosophy . In: Klaus Hammacher (Ed.): Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. Philosopher and writer of the Goethe era . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
• Malaise dans le capitalisme: entre fascisme et romantisme . In: Les Temps Modernes , Vol. 37, No. 415 (February 1981), pp. 1407-1433.

Web link

• Gerhard Höhn homepage
• Literature by and about Gerhard Höhn in the catalog of the German National Library