Johannes Barnick

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Johannes Ferdinand Barnick (born June 1, 1916 in Połęcko / Pollenzig / Mark Brandenburg, † August 16, 1987 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a German writer, philosopher and private scholar.

Life

Johannes Otto Ernst Karl Ferdinand Barnick was the son of the local pastor and later superintendent Karl Barnick. He was a descendant of David Splitgerber through his paternal grandmother . Barnick attended humanistic grammar schools in Opole, Frankfurt a. O. and Anklam . He then studied philosophy (major), theology, history, German and Sanskrit at the universities of Breslau, Tübingen, Berlin and Kiel until 1941 . During the Second World War , from June 1941 to April 1945, he was mainly deployed on the Eastern Front, where he was wounded several times. After the end of the war, Barnick became a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Kiel , where he lectured on logic, ontology and Kant's " Critique of Pure Reason ". However, in 1949 he decided not to continue his university career in order to devote himself to literary work.

Works (selection)

Barnick's literary production primarily includes his main philosophical work Vom Sinn des Tollen - The Logic of Fate as a Key to Post-Occidental World Time , which was published in its basic features as Quadrilateralism in Logic and World in 1969.

  • About inertia - a myth (Der Gral Verlag, Tübingen 1951)
  • The changeable late period - dangers and opportunities of the future (Verlag Konrad Wittwer, Stuttgart 1956)
  • The German trump cards (Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1958)
  • German-Russian neighborhood (Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1959)
  • Germany's guilt for peace (Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1965)
  • On the meaning of the whole - fourfoldness in logic and the world (Duncker and Humblot Verlag, Berlin 1969)
  • On the meaning of the whole - the logic of fate as the key to post-occidental world time (Novalis Verlag, Schaffhausen 1981), ISBN 3721400909
  • Dreams and signs - a lyrical diary from five decades (Novalis Verlag, Schaffhausen 1982)
  • A silent ancestor - the life and secret of the hunter master David von Splitgerber (Koehler and Amelang, Munich - Berlin, 2001), ISBN 3733803035

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SURNAME Barnick, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnick, Johannes Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, philosopher and private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Połęcko (Pollenzig)
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1987
Place of death Wangen in the Allgäu