Hans Börnsen

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Hans Börnsen (born January 27, 1907 in Hamburg ; † April 3, 1983 there ) was a German anthroposophical philosopher and from 1965 to 1983 the general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Germany.

Life

Börnsen attended the grammar school and studied at the University of Hamburg the subjects mathematics , physics and philosophy and art history and musicology . He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1942 with a thesis on the concept of substance with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , which Börnsen considered in relation to the idea of metamorphosis in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

In the 1950s, Börnsen took up extensive teaching activities, particularly within the framework of the Anthroposophical Society, and some of his lectures were published. More than 650 lectures are available in a collection of transcribed tape recordings. Börnsen presented numerous works in which he often shed light on the relationship between natural science and an anthroposophically understood spiritual science . After his death, works by Rolf Speckner were published.

Works

  • Science and reality. The relationship of natural science to the reality of nature . Hamburg 1958
  • Color and shape as elements of the language of the world . Hamburg 1958
  • The essence of communication. Emptying or internalizing thought . Hamburg 1958
  • Goethe's color theory as the key to the spiritual reality of nature . Hamburg 1960
  • Science on the threshold . Stuttgart 1964
  • The secret law of the heptagon: The creation of form from the realm of movement . Stuttgart 1965
  • Leibniz Concept of Substance and Goethe's Thought of Metamorphosis (1983). Edited by Rolf Speckner
  • The Edda Prophecy: Myth and Science. Collected lectures, essays and translations . Edited by Rolf Speckner Dornach: Philosophischer-Anthroposophischer Verlag am Goetheanum 1989 ( ISBN 3-7235-0461-2 )

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ The data are quoted from Frank Teichmann: Biography of Hans Börnsen at the Kulturimpuls research center
  2. ↑ Hans Börnsen: Leibniz 'concept of substance and Goethe's thought of metamorphosis. Dissertation University of Hamburg 1942
  3. ↑ For example: measure and number. Man, the measure of all things. Lecture given on October 14, 1955 as part of the 17th anthroposophical working week in Hamburg by Hans Börnsen. Hamburg: Windelberg Verlag 1957
  4. ↑ The lectures collected by Hans Themann are freely accessible at the url www.hansboernsen.de .
personal data
SURNAME Börnsen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1983
Place of death Hamburg