Hermann Friedmann

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Friedmann (front right) at the meeting of the German PEN Center in Hamburg April 12, 1949

Adolph Hermann Friedmann aka Abram Hersh Friedman (born March 30 . Jul / 11. April  1873 greg. In Białystok ; † 25. May 1957 in Heidelberg ) was a German philosopher and jurist .

Life

Hermann Friedmann was the eldest son of the banker and President of the Latvian State Bank Isidor Moritz Bielostozkij called Friedmann and the Fruma Leiba, Grodinskaja. When he was three years old, his parents moved with him from Białystok to Riga , the capital of the Russian Baltic provinces. There he attended secondary school and from 1883 to 1891 the Gouvernementsgymnasium, where he passed his Abitur on June 11, 1891.

After studying law and history at the Imperial University of Dorpat (1891–1896), commercial science at the Riga Polytechnic (1896–1898) and studying natural sciences and philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Ruprecht Charles University in Heidelberg , Hermann Friedmann was awarded Dr. iur. PhD .

During his time in Berlin, Hermann Friedmann was, together with Rudolf Steiner, a member of the Giordano-Bruno-Bund and the Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis , where he was especially friends with Bruno Wille and Wilhelm Bölsche . During his time in Berlin, he also met regularly with Maximilian Harden .

From 1898 to 1902 he worked as a lawyer in Basel ; In 1902 he gained at the University of Geneva Dr. phil. In 1903 he lived in Constantinople . Between 1904 and 1906 he worked in Riga, Dorpat and Saint Petersburg . From 1906 to 1934 he stayed in Finland, where he served as legal advisor to the Imperial Governor General of the Russian Empire in Finland until 1918 and was qualified to teach the history of philosophy at the University of Helsinki .

During his years in Finland, the German-born Friedmann became known to the general public as a lawyer. His most famous case was a murder committed in the Vartiovuorenmäki district of Turku in 1927. Friedmann defended the head of the Åbo Akademi university library and his wife. The trial was also reported extensively in German newspapers.

Due to the change in the political situation in Europe, Hermann Friedmann moved with his wife Clara, born in 1934. Hinrichsen (this came from the Sephardic Henriques family, who had settled in Hamburg and Schwerin after their escape from Portugal) to London , where they stayed until the post-war period. He participated in the founding of the German PEN group in London and was its president from 1946.

In 1950 Herrmann Friedmann was appointed honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg, where he taught international law and natural law . In 1951 he became honorary president of the German PEN center. Hermann Friedmann published numerous works on German literature of the 20th century.

Fonts

  • The incorporeal thing. On the system of private law . Reich, Basel 1900
  • Real fulfillment according to Swiss law . In: Journal of Swiss Law , ca.1901
  • Mechanics as a philosophy . In: Die Zukunft , 40 (1902), pp. 469-481, ed. v. Maximilian Harden , Verlag der Zukunft, Berlin 1902
  • Anti-Haeckel (replica of Friedrich Loofs ' Anti-Haeckel ). In: Die Zukunft 11/44, Verlag der Zukunft, Berlin 1903
  • The convergence of organisms. An empirically based theory as a substitute for the theory of descent . Paetel, Berlin 1904
  • About a physical finiteness principle and the general expression of natural law . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1905
  • The first day. Poems, scenes and sentences . Bergmann, Dorpat 1906
  • The world of forms. System of a morphological idealism . Paetel, Berlin 1925; 2nd supplement A. Beck, Munich 1930
  • Science and symbol. Outline of a science close to symbols . Biederstein (= CH Beck), Munich 1949
  • Meaningful odyssey. History of a Life and a Time (1873–1950) . Beck, Munich 1950
  • Epilegomena. To diagnose the science age . Beck, Munich 1954
  • The present situation of the literary man . In: German literature in the 20th century. Structures and shapes . Rothe, Heidelberg 1954
  • Ina Seidel . In: Christian poets of the present. Contributions to European literature . Rothe, Heidelberg 1955
  • The mind. Thoughts on a Thymology of Man . Beck, Munich 1956
  • The tragedy of God. A game sequence . Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1957

literature

Archives

  • Latvian State Historical Archives Riga, register of the Riga Polytechnic
  • Estonian State Archives Tartu, Register of Registration and University Record AH Friedmann
  • Keilmann family archive managed by Robert Dupuis, Berlin
  • P. Friedmann Family Archives, Hereford, England

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rimpiläinen, Tuomas: Messukylän veriteko ja muita rikostarinoita Suomesta, Gummerus 2015
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedmann, Adolph Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Białystok
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1957
Place of death Heidelberg