Johannes Hielscher

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Johannes Hielscher (born October 15, 1871 in Posen , † August 26, 1945 in Münster ) was a German philosopher and psychologist .

Life

After studying in Leipzig , Halle , Heidelberg and Strasbourg , Hielscher received his doctorate in 1900 in Zurich with the psychologist Ernst Meumann . He then became an assistant at the psychological laboratory in Zurich and completed his habilitation in 1902. In 1908 he followed his teacher Meumann and moved to Münster , where he continued to teach experimental psychology. At the beginning of the First World War he worked as a volunteer nurse on the Western Front . In 1915 he received an order from the War Ministry to design an anti-aircraft gun. In 1917 he received a teaching position for the history of philosophy. In 1922 he was made a non-official associate professor.

His presentation of Fichte , in which he distinguished him as an independent thinker from Hegel, attracted attention. Fichte's doctrine of science is a philosophy of experience , because the non-I is only given in experience and knowledge arises in direct perception through self-experience. This means that life precedes all concepts and cannot be broken down into concepts.

In the 1920s, Hielscher was active in conservative circles in the Fichte Society of 1914 and in the German Philosophical Society . The full professorship he was striving for was denied. He joined the NSDAP in 1932 . In March 1933 he signed the declaration of 300 university lecturers for Adolf Hitler . At the age of 64, in the winter semester of 1934/35, he received a personal ordinariate as a planned associate Professor, which was justified with the years of postponement due to his national and National Socialist attitude. Contrary to the prevailing practice, he was not having reached the age limit, but only on 31 March 1937 emeritus .

Fonts

  • Investigations into the historical development of logic in the principles of mechanics . Diss., Engelmann, Leipzig 1901.
  • Draft of an epistemology of the concept of mass, of spatial and temporal measurement . Pfeffer, Zurich 1902.
  • Older Greek philosophy: presented in terms of national and individual psychology . Engelmann, Leipzig 1905.
  • Fichte's system of thought . Curtius, Berlin 1913.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lieselotte Steveling: Juristen in Münster: A contribution to the history of the law and political science faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / Westf, Lit Münster 1999, 312.
personal data
SURNAME Hielscher, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hielscher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1945
Place of death Muenster