Herman Schmalenbach

Herman Schmalenbach, presumably. 1940s

Herman Friedrich Schmalenbach (born November 15, 1885 in Breckerfeld , Westphalia, † November 3, 1950 in Basel ) was a German social philosopher and brother of the business economist Eugen Schmalenbach .

Live and act

After studying philosophy, history, art history and classical studies in Jena , Berlin and Munich , where he learned from among others with Georg Simmel , he received his doctorate in 1910 with Rudolf Eucken in Jena. From 1916 to 1917 he taught at the Dürerschule , a reform school in Hochwaldhausen in Vogelsberg , then briefly at the Odenwaldschule in Ober-Hambach in southern Hesse . He completed his habilitation in Göttingen in 1920 and became an associate professor there in 1923, and from 1928 he also taught at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1931 he was appointed to the University of Basel and worked there as a full professor until his death.

He worked in the field of phenomenological analysis of consciousness and the various types of consciousness; His introduction of the covenant category , which is based on his experience as a teacher at the Dürer School , was significant for sociology . Also his impressions of the George circle - Schmalenbach was friends with Stefan George from 1908 to approx. 1912 - he could u. a. use for an attachment. His son was the art historian Werner Schmalenbach (1920–2010).

Works

Being as an object of metaphysics: first part of an epistemology of metaphysics. 1. The first conception of metaphysics in occidental thought , Jena 1910, dissertation ( digitized version ).
Leibniz , Munich 1921.
Kant and the philosophy of the present , Munich 1924.
The Kantian philosophy and religion , Göttingen 1926.
The middle age. His concept and essence , Leipzig 1926.
Kant's Religion , Berlin 1929.
The Ethos and Idea of Knowledge , Tübingen 1933.
Mind and Being , Basel 1939.

literature

Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover, 1931, p. 133.
Nicole C. Karafyllis : Willy Moog (1888-1935): Ein Philosophenleben , Freiburg: Karl Alber 2015, ISBN 978-3-495-48697-9 . Describes the common school days, academic training and further development of the philosopher friends Moog and Schmalenbach in numerous places.
Nicole C. Karafyllis : The philosophers Herman Schmalenbach and Willy Moog and their work at the technical universities in Hanover and Braunschweig. With a sideways glance at Schmalenbach's Leibniz . Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag (published Nov. 2016) ISBN 978-3-86525-553-2

Web links

Literature by and about Herman Schmalenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Herman Schmalenbach's estate in the Basel University Library
Markus Zürcher: Schmalenbach, Hermann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Remarks

↑ Peter Dudek : "The Oedipus from Kurfürstendamm". A Wickersdorf student and his matricide in 1930 . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2026-4 , p. 34.
↑ On George's role and his ideas, which are also explicitly mentioned in the essay, cf. in short Ulrich Raulff : Circle without a master. Stefan George's afterlife . CH Beck, Munich 2009, p. 210f.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmalenbach, Herman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmalenbach, Herman Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Breckerfeld , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1950
Place of death	Basel

[1] Peter Dudek : "The Oedipus from Kurfürstendamm". A Wickersdorf student and his matricide in 1930 . Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2026-4 , p. 34.

[2] On George's role and his ideas, which are also explicitly mentioned in the essay, cf. in short Ulrich Raulff : Circle without a master. Stefan George's afterlife . CH Beck, Munich 2009, p. 210f.