Josef Hoëné-Wronski

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Josef Hoëné-Wronski 1845

Jósef Maria Hoëné-Wroński (actually Jósef Hoëné, born August 23, 1776 in Wolsztyn in Poland-Lithuania , † August 9, 1853 in Paris ) was a Polish philosopher and mathematician .

Life

Wroński, as he is mostly called today, was born on 23 August 1776 in Wolsztyn as Jósef Hoëné. His father was from Bohemia native architect Antoni Hoehne.

In the cadet corps in Warsaw trained it was in 1794 as an officer of the artillery in the Polish army at the Kosciuszko uprising involved, but fell in the Battle of Maciejowice in Russian captivity . As a result, he was obliged to serve in the Russian army. After his release in 1797, he went to Germany to study philosophy and law at several universities . He was particularly interested in Kant's teaching .

In 1800 he went to France and joined Dąbrowski's legions in the fight for the freedom of Poland. But soon he turned back to philosophical and other scientific studies. In 1803 he had an " enlightenment " that prompted him to develop an "absolute" philosophy. Until 1810 he lived mainly in Marseille , where he worked at the Observatoire de Marseille and in 1810 married the daughter of an astronomer. Shortly after marriage, he adopted the name Wroński, which he used alternately or in conjunction with his original surname. He then lost his position at the observatory and spent the rest of his life as a private scholar mostly in Paris.

He initially earned his living as a math teacher in Montmartre . In 1812 he met the businessman Pierre Arson, who became an enthusiastic student of Wroński and in return gave him generous financial support. This arrangement lasted for several years, although Arson had meanwhile come to believe that Vronsky was actually a fraud and tried unsuccessfully to free himself from the agreements made.

plant

Wroński claimed to fundamentally reform philosophy and mathematics and published numerous works on a wide range of topics. In science, however, his work was mostly rejected, and his first book was so badly received that he had to give up his position at the observatory as a result.

He also referred to his “absolute” philosophy as “ messianism ” because it was intended to comprehensively renew humanity. In doing so, he tied in with Kant, but rejected his interpretation of a priori knowledge as subjective by postulating that the laws of reason are identical with those of the universe. The religious scholar Arthur McCalla describes Wroński's philosophy as a synthesis of post-Kantian idealism and illuminism .

In mathematics, Wroński proposed a series expansion for functions whose coefficients are the so-called Wronski determinants today.

He dealt more clandestinely with the Kabbalah , with Jakob Böhme and with Gnostic teachings.

effect

In the last years of his life, Wroński had a great influence on Éliphas Lévi , the founder of modern French occultism .

The Polish poets Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasiński and the philosophers Bronislaw Ferdynand Trentowski and Karol Libelt were also influenced by Wroński .

The asteroid (33017) Vronsky has been named after him since 2008 .

Fonts

  • Introduction à la philosophie des mathématiques et technique de l'algorithme . Didot, Paris 1811
  • General résolution of equations de tous les degrés . Paris 1811
  • Philosophy de l'infin . Paris 1814
  • Canon de logarithmes . Paris 1827
  • Prodrome du messianisme, révélation des destinées de l'humanité . Doyen, Paris 1831
    • Prodrome of Messianism or Absolute Philosophy . Stalling, Oldenburg 1931
  • Messianism: union finale de la philosophie et de la religion . 2 volumes, Paris 1831 and 1839; New edition 3 volumes, 1847/48
  • Philosophy absolue de l'histoire . 1852

literature

  • Philippe d'Arcy: Hoene-Wronski: une philosophie de la création . Seghers, Paris 1970

Web links

Commons : Józef Hoene-Wroński  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arthur McCalla: Wronski , in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Ed.): Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism , Leiden 2005, pp. 1177–1179, here p. 1178
  2. ^ JJ O'Connor, EF Robertson: Josef-Maria Hoëné de Wronski , University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 2007
  3. ↑ a b McCalla, p. 1179
  4. ↑ James Webb : The Flight from Reason , Wiesbaden 2009, p. 400
  5. ^ A b Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-532099-2 , pp. 192 f . ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2012]).
  6. ^ Webb, pp. 405-407
  7. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 61765
personal data
SURNAME Hoëné-Wronski, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoëné, Josef (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish philosopher and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolsztyn , Poland-Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1853
Place of death Paris