Gustav A. Weather
Gustav Andreas Wetter SJ (born May 4, 1911 in Mödling near Vienna ; † November 5, 1991 in Rome ) belonged to the Jesuit order from 1936 and dealt with Soviet history and philosophy .
Wetter joined the Collegium Russicum in Rome in 1930 and was its rector between 1947 and 1954. At Christmas 1935 he was ordained a priest according to the Byzantine-Slavic rite . He obtained a doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University . From 1957 to the 1970s he was professor of the history of Russian philosophy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and at the Gregoriana.
Works
- Dialectical materialism. Its history and its system in the Soviet Union Herder, Freiburg 1952 (and other editions)
- Philosophy and natural science in the Soviet Union , Rowohlt, Hamburg 1958.
- Soviet ideology today together with Wolfgang Leonhard in Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1962
- The reversal of Hegel. Basics and origins of the Soviet philosophy , Verl. Wissenschaft u. Politics, Cologne 1963 (Contributions to Sovietology, Volume 1).
literature
- Helmut Dahm : Be sober and vigilant. Gustav A. Wetter and the philosophical Sovietology , Wewel, Cologne 1991 (Wewelbuch, Volume 145), ISBN 3-87904-145-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav A. Wetter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gustav A. Wetter in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wetter, Gustav A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weather, Gustav Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian chaplain, Jesuit, occupied himself with Soviet history and philosophy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mödling near Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1991 |
| Place of death | Rome |