Josef Schmidt (philosopher)

Josef Schmidt 1982 at the University of Philosophy

Josef Schmidt (* 1946 in Erlangen ) is a German philosopher and Jesuit as well as a professor emeritus for the philosophical doctrine of God and the history of philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Munich.

Life

After attending the Fridericianum high school in Erlangen, Schmid entered the Jesuit order in 1966 . From 1968 to 1971 he studied philosophy at the Berchmanskolleg in Pullach . He then continued his studies at the University of Munich , majoring in philosophy, with minor subjects in education and evangelical theology (with Wolfhart Pannenberg ).

In 1976 he did his doctorate under Hermann Krings with a thesis on Hegel and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg . He then studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from which he graduated in 1980 with a licentiate . He was ordained a priest in 1978. Schmidt has been working at the University of Philosophy in Munich since the 1980 winter semester. After his habilitation with a thesis on Hegel's phenomenology of spirit in 1996, he was appointed professor for the philosophical doctrine of God and the history of philosophy. In 2016 he retired.

Publications (selection)

• (With Bernhard Grom :) In search of the meaning of life , Herder Freiburg, 1975 (last edition: 1988)
• Hegel's Science of Logic and its Critique by Adolf Trendelenburg , Johannes Berchmans Verlag, Munich 1977
• (With Emerich Coreth and Peter Ehlen :) 19th Century Philosophy, Basic Course Philosophy 9, Kohlhammer Stuttgart 1984 (3rd edition 1997)
• "Spirit", "Religion" and "Absolute Knowledge". A commentary on the three chapters of the same name from Hegel's “Phenomenology of Mind” , Kohlhammer Stuttgart 1997.
• Philosophical Theology , Basic Philosophy Volume 5, Kohlhammer Verlag, Urban-Taschenbuch, Stuttgart 2003.

Web links

• Portrait on the side of the School of Philosophy
• Christoph Sachs: Josef Schmidt gives a farewell lecture. University of Philosophy Munich, press release from May 4, 2016 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on May 4, 2016.