Jerzy Drewnowski
Jerzy Drewnowski (* 1941 in Poland ) is a German science historian , philosopher and ethicist .
Life
Jerzy Drewnowski is a former employee of the Polish Academy of Sciences , the Lessing Academy in Wolfenbüttel and the Technical University Cottbus , a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (in the German Copernicus Research Center in the Deutsches Museum , Munich) and the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, founding senator of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) .
He worked for many years, in Poland and Germany, on the publication of the Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition and received his doctorate on Copernicus as a politically active scholar.
In his habilitation thesis he dealt with the ethical and social self-image of Polish intellectuals of the 14th and 15th centuries.
He also examined the social and political consciousness of people who live in bondage. As part of a source research on forced labor during the National Socialist era , he developed a new catalog of questions for conversations with contemporary witnesses.
He has lived in Germany since 1989, at times he spends a lot in Poland. In Jedlnia-Letnisko near Radom, he and Stanisław Matuła created a meeting place for independently thinking people from home and abroad.
He understands his current philosophical reflection as a European philosophy of liberation . He gives this his reflection the form of essays , poems and philosophical fables .
He is a member of the Honorary Committee of the Polish Federation of Rationalists .
Works
- " Mikołaj Kopernik w świetle swojej korespondencji", Ossolineum , 1978
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drewnowski, Jerzy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science historian, philosopher and ethicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poland |