Julius Goldstein

Julius Goldstein (born October 29, 1873 in Hamburg , † June 25, 1929 in Darmstadt ) was a German sociologist (sociology of technology), cultural scientist, philosopher ( pragmatist James'scher coinage, whose "pluralistic universe" he translated, 1913) and Physicist.

Life

Goldstein came from a Jewish merchant family who had moved from Danzig to Hamburg. He attended a high school in Hamburg, where he received his Abitur certificate in 1893. Goldstein studied philosophy first in Berlin and from the summer semester 1896 at the University of Jena, a. a. with Rudolf Eucken (1846–1926). He received his doctorate in Jena in 1899. Eucken rated the dissertation as outstanding. Goldstein completed his habilitation in 1902 at the Faculty of History and Literature at the TH Darmstadt and became a private lecturer in philosophy. In 1909 he was awarded the title of professor by the TH. However, this did not involve any material security. In the First World War he was an officer. In his numerous lectures he comes to various theaters of war. The experiences of the First World War made him a pacifist.

On October 1, 1920 he became an adjunct professor, again without material security. He earned his living by lecturing intensively at home and abroad. In 1923/24 he went on a six-month lecture tour to the east of the USA, which was financed by the Jewish Central Association.

After several years of debate Julius Goldstein was on October 8, 1925 on the initiative of Wilhelm Leuschner and Julius Reiber after fierce resistance of the TH Darmstadt associate professor of philosophy at the University of Darmstadt. About his appointment as professor, which took place against the will of the university management, arose a dispute influenced by anti-Semitic motives, in the course of which Rudolf Eucken and Ernst Troeltsch publicly spoke out in favor of Goldstein.

Julius Goldstein had been editor-in-chief of the Darmstädter Zeitung since 1920 as well as the founder and director of the magazine “Der Morgen”, a German-Jewish bimonthly magazine published by Philo-Verlag from 1925 until it was banned by the Nazis in 1938 .

Julius Goldstein was married to Margarete (Gretel) Neumann (1885–1960), the daughter of a Mainz wine merchant, on March 19, 1907. From this marriage a son Walter (born March 13, 1909) and the two daughters Elsbeth Juda (born May 2, 1911; † July 5, 2014) and Hanna Emmy (born May 16, 1912) emerged.

After a long illness, Julius Goldstein succumbed to cancer on June 25, 1929. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Darmstadt-Bessungen.

Works

• Studies on the cultural problem of the present , 1899
• David Hume's empirical view of history , 1903
• Changes in Contemporary Philosophy , 1911
• The technology , Frankfurt am Main 1912
• William James: The pluralistic universe, Leipzig 1914
• Race and Politics , Leipzig 1921 (4th edition 1924)
• From the legacy of the 19th century , Berlin 1922
• German Volksidee and German-Völkisch Idea , (2nd edition) Berlin 1929
• The school in the service of popular reconciliation and international understanding, Darmstadt 1929.

literature

• Robert H. Schmidt:  Goldstein, Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 621 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Uwe Zuber (Ed.): Julius Goldstein. The Jewish philosopher in his diaries , Commission for the history of the Jews in Hessen Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-921434-26-0 .
• Goldstein, Julius. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 9: Glass Green. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-22689-6 , pp. 168-175.
• Christof Dipper : A forgotten technology philosopher. Julius Goldstein and the Darmstadt Modernist Discourses around 1900 . In: Technikgeschichte, Vol. 84 (2017), H. 1, pp. 3–27.

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Goldstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Julius Goldstein  in the German Digital Library