Heinrich Walter Cassirer

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Heinrich (Heinz) Walter Cassirer (born August 9, 1903 in Starnberg ; died February 20, 1979 in Glasgow ) was a philosopher of German origin in the Kantian tradition. He was one of the three children of the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer and his wife Antonielle (Toni) Cassirer, née Bondy.

Life

God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation

Heinrich Walter Cassirer was born on August 9, 1903 in Starnberg in Upper Bavaria as the son of the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer and his wife Antoinelle (Toni), née Bondy. Ernst Cassirer came from the well-known Jewish merchant and art dealer family Cassirer and his wife Toni was also the daughter of his aunt Julie, née Cassirer, and her husband Otto Bondy , who became known as a cable manufacturer in Vienna. Heinz had two siblings, the employee and photographer Georg Eugen and the psychologist and violinist Anna Elisabeth, who married the pianist Kurt Appelbaum in New York City .

During the Nazi era in Germany, Ernst Cassirer and his family fled to Denmark in the 1930s and later to Great Britain. Heinz Cassirer went to the University of Glasgow and worked there with Herbert James Paton , after whose advice he wrote a book on Kant's third criticism, the Critique of Judgment . He then moved to Corpus Christi College in Oxford , where he taught philosophy, concentrating primarily on Kant and following Karl Barth's interpretations, among others .

Cassirer also studied the New Testament and was particularly impressed by the interpretations of Paul of Tarsus on ethics . He converted to Christianity and was baptized in the Church of England in 1955 . He translated the New Testament from Greek sources and called his new translation God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation . His knowledge of the Jewish tradition and customs gave him a unique insight into the well-known Bible texts.

Works

  • Grace and Law: St. Paul, Kant, and the Hebrew Prophets
  • God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation

supporting documents

  1. ^ Sigrid Bauschinger : The Cassirers. Entrepreneurs, art dealers, philosophers. CHBeck, Munich 2015; P. 448. ISBN 978-3-406-67714-4 .
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Cassirer on Cassirers after Hitler - The Scattered Generations. , accessed May 14, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Cassirer, Heinrich Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cassirer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Starnberg
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1979
Place of death Glasgow