Heinrich Maier (philosopher)

Heinrich Maier (born February 5, 1867 in Heidenheim an der Brenz , † November 28, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher .

He studied philosophy and theology in Tübingen , where he joined the Tübingen royal society Roigel and received his doctorate in 1892 from his brother Christoph Sigwart , who later became his father-in-law. In 1896 Maier completed his habilitation and in 1900 was initially an associate professor and in 1901 a full professor in Zurich . In 1902 he returned to a chair in Tübingen. In 1911 he moved to Göttingen , in 1918 to Heidelberg (where Karl Jaspers became his successor in 1922 ) and finally to Berlin in 1922 . In 1918 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1920 he was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In October 1922 he was elected a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Maier was a Neo-Kantian , represented a critical realism and emphasized the intrinsic function of will and feeling in their influence on thinking .

His philosophy of reality (1926–35, 3 volumes) is the basis of his metaphysics.

With his wife Anna Sigwart he had a son Georg and a daughter, Anneliese , who also became a philosopher.

Fonts

The syllogistics of Aristotle , 1896.
- Part 1: Aristotle's Logical Theory of Judgment , 1896.
- Part 2: The logical theory of the syllogism and the emergence of Aristotelian logic.
  - 1st half: Form theory and technique of the syllogism , 1900.
  - 2nd half: The emergence of Aristotelian logic , 1900.
Psychology of emotional thinking. Mohr, Tübingen; 1908, ²1925; Reprint: Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1967.
Socrates: his work and his historical position , Mohr, Tübingen 1913.
Philosophy of Reality , 1926.
- 1. Volume: Truth and Reality , 1926. Online Archive
- Volume 2: The physical reality.
  - Department 1: The Reality of the Physical World , 1933.
  - Section 2: The Structure of the Physical World , 1934.
- Volume 3: The psychic-spiritual reality , edited by Anneliese Maier, 1935.

literature

Klaus-Werner Segreff: Maier, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 694-696 ( digitized version ).
Susanne Lange-Greve, On the Frontier of Philosophy - Heinrich Maier 1867-1933 , published by the Stiftung Literaturforschung in Ostwürttemberg, Einhorn-Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-95747-016-4

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Maier in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 159.

personal data
SURNAME	Maier, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1933
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 159.