Joseph Petzoldt

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Joseph Petzoldt (born November 4, 1862 in Altenburg , † August 1, 1929 in Spandau ) was a German philosopher and supporter of empiricist criticism .

Life

During his studies, Petzoldt became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity in 1882 . He received his doctorate in 1890 in Göttingen on the principle of economy with the thesis Maxima, Minima und Ökonomie . In 1891 he took up a position as a senior teacher at the Royal High School in Spandau. In 1904 he completed his habilitation in philosophy with the second volume of his introduction to the philosophy of pure experience and also taught as a private lecturer at the TH Charlottenburg (today: TU Berlin ). In 1909 he tried to be able to teach privately to the highly gifted student Otto Braun . In 1922 he was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the TH Charlottenburg.

Petzoldt was the founder and first chairman of the Society for Positivist Philosophy (1912–1921) and co-founder of the International Society for Empirical Philosophy (1927).

Fonts (selection)

  • Maxima, Minima and Economy , 1891
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Pure Experience. First volume: The Determination of the Soul , 1900
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Pure Experience. Volume Two: On the Road to Enduring , 1904
  • Special schools for highly skilled people . Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1905. (Reprint 2018: ISBN 978-0-364-32257-4 )
  • The Most General Development Law , 1923
  • The position of the theory of relativity in the spiritual development of mankind , Leipzig, Barth, 1923, 2nd increased edition.
  • The world problem from the standpoint of relativistic positivism , 1924
  • The natural altitude goal of human development , 1927

literature

  • Walter Dubislav : Joseph Petzoldt in memoriam: Lecture given on October 15, 1929 in the Society for Empirical Philosophy, local group Berlin . In: Annals of Philosophy and Philosophical Criticism 8/1, Berlin 1929, pp. 289–295.
  • Christian Herrmann: Obituary: Joseph Petzoldt, in: Kant-Studien 34 (1929), pp. 508-510.
  • Horst Müller: Joseph Petzoldt . In: Humanism and Technology 11/1, Berlin & Frankfurt 1966, pp. 33–36.
  • Klaus Hentschel (ed.): The correspondence Petzoldt-Reichenbach: For the development of scientific philosophy in Berlin , Berlin: Sigma, 1990 (= Berlin contributions to the history of natural sciences and technology, issue 12).
  • Gerd Graßhoff (Ed.): Wittgenstein's World of Mechanics: Including Transcriptions of Lectures by Wittgenstein's Teacher Joseph Petzoldt and Related Texts on Mechanics . Springer, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-211-32816-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 151.
  2. ^ Julie Braun-Vogelstein: Otto Braun. From the posthumous writings of an early completed man . Bruno Cassirer Verlag, Berlin 1920.
personal data
SURNAME Petzoldt, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and advocate of empirical criticism
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1929
Place of death Spandau