Johannes Erich Heyde

Johannes Erich Heyde (born May 22, 1892 in Polkenberg ; † April 6, 1979 in West Berlin ) was a German philosopher and psychologist .

Life

Heyde was born in Polkenberg near Grimma and graduated from high school in Grimma in 1912. He studied at the University of Greifswald until his doctorate in 1915 with the dissertation on the concept of value . Then he did military service in the First World War in 1915/16. He then became a student trainee and teacher mainly in Greifswald . At the University of Greifswald, the habilitation was not continued in 1928 . From 1928 he worked as a professor of philosophy and educational psychology at the Rostock Pedagogical Institute , whose task was to train elementary school teachers . He also dealt with the holistic method in learning to read. On November 11, 1933, he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities . In 1935 the Pedagogical Institute became a college for teacher training , which existed until 1942. Heyde then had lectureships in philosophy in Rostock and Greifswald. In January 1945 he completed his habilitation in Innsbruck with the former Greifswald philosopher Walther Schulze-Soelde with a cumulative writing.

As early as 1945 he worked again as a lecturer at the University of Rostock, where he received a professorship at the pedagogical faculty in 1946. He was director of the institute and dean . After emigrating to West Germany, he taught from 1950 to 1957 ( retirement ) and continued at the TU Berlin until 1960 .

Heyde was a student of Johannes Rehmke all his life . In particular, he worked as managing director of the Johannes Rehmke Society and as editor of its philosophical journal Grundwissenschaft . As a philosopher Heyde u. a. with the discussion of the concept of value . He also made significant contributions in the areas of positivism , the reassessment of causality, and the philosophy of technology .

Works

Basic philosophy , 1924
Value. A Philosophical Foundation , 1926
Technique of Scientific Work , 1930 (10 ed. To 1970)
Devaluation of causality? For and against positivism , 1957
Paths to Clarity. Essays , 1960

Awards

In 1963 he was made an honorary senator of the TU Berlin .

literature

Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Berlin 2002, especially p. 893 ff.

Web links

Literature about Johannes Erich Heyde in the state bibliography MV

Basic principles of the theory of values - archive.org (PDF; 11 MB)

Entry on Johannes Erich Heyde in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Personnel form from Johannes Erich Heyde in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

↑ Werner Krauss et al .: Letters 1922 to 1976 Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt: 2002, p. 991.
↑ Award of the academic dignity of Honorary Senator to Professor Dr. phil. habil. Johannes Erich Heyde and Professor Dr. rer. nat. hc Dr. rer. nat. hc Dr. phil. Iwan N. Stranski by the Technical University, Berlin, July 15, 1963 . In: Technische Universität Berlin: Academic Speeches 24. Berlin 1963.

personal data
SURNAME	Heyde, Johannes Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Polkenberg
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1979
Place of death	West Berlin

[1] Werner Krauss et al .: Letters 1922 to 1976 Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt: 2002, p. 991.

[2] Award of the academic dignity of Honorary Senator to Professor Dr. phil. habil. Johannes Erich Heyde and Professor Dr. rer. nat. hc Dr. rer. nat. hc Dr. phil. Iwan N. Stranski by the Technical University, Berlin, July 15, 1963 . In: Technische Universität Berlin: Academic Speeches 24. Berlin 1963.