Julius Schmidhauser

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Julius Schmidhauser (born March 29, 1893 in Zurich ; † January 6, 1970 in Losone ) was a Swiss philosopher .

Life

He came from a well-known Thurgau family, derived from Ulrich Schmidhauser , who had been expelled by the Austrians as a co-reformer in Constance . Schmidhauser attended elementary school in Hottingen and high school in Zurich . In the fall of 1911 he began studying law at the University of Zurich . In 1916/17 he was appointed Central President of the Swiss Zofinger Association ; he belonged to the left camp of the Ideal Zofingers. He received his doctorate there in 1919 with a dissertation entitled “From pure immediate legal consciousness”.

In the same year he became secretary of the Swiss Writers' Association under Presidents Felix Moeschlin and Robert Faesi , an office he held until 1923. In 1920 he married Alice Spinner, the daughter of Dean Spinner. Two of her four children died early; her two other children, daughter Ruth and son Hannes Schmidhauser , were active in the film. Schmidhauser was a member of the National Front . Due to a serious illness, he and his family moved to Ticino in 1934 , where he took over a house in Losone that the sculptor Kagan had built.

Works

  • Switzerland in the fate of democracy. (Lecture given on December 11, 1930 to the Zurich student body) Girsberger, Zurich 1931.
  • The fight for the spiritual realm. Construction and Fate of the University. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1933.
  • The kingdom of the sons. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1940.
  • Rose, you are: [poem]. Book printing company Geschwister Ziegler & Co., Winterthur 1943.
  • Mnemosyne. Lambert Schneider Publishing House, Heidelberg 1953.
  • Revolution: the skill and clumsiness of the New Age. Vorwerk, Stuttgart 1963.

literature

  • Christian Baertschi: Julius Schmidhauser. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 17, 2011 , accessed May 8, 2020 .
  • Dino Larese: Julius Schmidhauser. Sauerländer, Aarau 1965 (with catalog raisonné.)
  • Dino Larese (Ed.): Philosophers on Lake Constance. Friedrichshafen 1999, pp. 39-52.

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SURNAME Schmidhauser, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1970
Place of death Losone