Jakob Baxa
Jakob Baxa (born February 15, 1895 in Vienna , † November 10, 1979 in Mödling , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian sociologist , lawyer , cultural and literary historian and poet .
Life
Baxa attended grammar school in Melk / Lower Austria, in Wels / Upper Austria and in Vienna, where he obtained his Matura in 1913 . From 1916 to 1918 he had to do military service, before and after that he studied law at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1919 .
From 1922 to 1945 Baxa worked for the sugar industry. First as an employee of the Austrian Sugar Office in Vienna, then from 1922 for Dürnkruter Zuckerfabrik AG, also in Vienna. As a sideline, he pursued his sociological studies and completed his habilitation in 1923 with Othmar Spann at the University of Vienna for social studies . From 1923 to 1938 Baxa taught as a private lecturer , from 1932 with the status of a titular extraordinary university professor . In 1938 he was suspended as a private lecturer by the National Socialists , and in 1940 his Venia Legendi was revoked.
In 1945, Baxa was not reinstated by the university and also retired by his main employer ( Dürnkruter Zuckerfabrik AG ). He was now almost deaf, a late consequence of the First World War, suffered hearing damage in a mine explosion . In addition, his mobility was severely restricted because he cared for his wife Maria Helene (née Ohnheiser, married 1918, † 1963) until her death. She was bedridden and almost blind from a stroke .
Baxa has lived as a private scholar and poet in Maria Enzersdorf / Lower Austria since 1945 and created an extensive dramatic oeuvre. He died in 1979 in the provincial hospital in Mödling / Lower Austria.
Significance for sociology
From 1921 to 1932, Baxa mainly dealt with sociological questions about romanticism . Therein lies its lasting importance for sociology, because the romantic political and social theory had been almost completely forgotten by the time of his research and publications.
In addition, Baxa tried in his "Theory of Society from Plato to Friedrich Nietzsche" to prove that sociology is deeply rooted in philosophy and is a humanities .
He is counted in the narrower so-called tension circle and was a founding, board member and honorary member of the Society for Holistic Research .
Works (selection)
- Godiva (play 1913).
- Introduction to Romantic Political Science (1923).
- History of Productivity Theory (1926).
- Social theory from Plato to Friedrich Nietzsche (1927).
- Alps in Fire (Poems 1931).
- Society and State in the Mirror of German Romanticism (1934).
- Sugar production (1937).
- Adelaide (play in four acts, 1938).
- The victim (novel 1949).
- Studies on the history of the sugar industry in the countries of the former Austria (1950).
- Henriette (novel 1951)
- Diana (novel 1951).
- Siegendorfer sugar factory, Conrad Patzenhofer's sons: 1852-1952 (1952).
- Friedrich von Gentz (1965).
- Sugar in the Lives of Nations (1967).
literature
- M. Mierendorff: Baxa, Jakob , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1984, p. 54 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Baxa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography in the archive for the history of sociology in Austria with bibliography of the scientific and artistic work
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baxa, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sociologist, cultural historian, literary historian and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1979 |
| Place of death | Mödling |