Julius Stenzel

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Julius Stenzel (1883–1935), professor of philosophy in Kiel and Halle

Julius Stenzel (born February 9, 1883 in Breslau ; † November 26, 1935 in Halle / Saale ) was a German classical philologist and philosopher .

Life

After graduating from the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Breslau, Stenzel studied classical philology at the University of Breslau from 1902 . After the state examination (1907), he completed his seminar year at the Royal High School in Bytom and worked on his dissertation, in which he dealt with genre differences between the Proömien epic poems and the hymn ( De ratione, quae inter carminum epicorum prooemia et hymnicam Graecorum poesin intercedere videatur ). With this dissertation he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Shortly afterwards he began his probationary year at the Royal High School in Breslau, which he continued from April 1, 1909 at the High School in Neisse . On October 1, 1909, he was permanently employed at the Royal High School in Breslau and four years later promoted to senior teacher.

During the First World War , Stenzel did military service as a radio operator from 1916 to 1918. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class and on June 2, 1918 made a lieutenant. After his return he continued to work as a senior teacher in Wroclaw, but on the side did his habilitation, which he achieved in 1920 in Wroclaw for philosophy. From 1923 he took on a teaching position for philosophy at the university in addition to his school office.

On April 1, 1925, Stenzel left Breslau and went to the University of Kiel , where he had received a full professorship for philosophy. In the same year he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1931 he turned down a call to the University of Basel . Stenzel was a member of a disciplinary body that in 1930 expelled some National Socialist students from the university who had disrupted the service of the liberal theologian Otto Baumgarten . After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Stenzel was denounced by a student and temporarily on leave. Despite political rehabilitation, he was transferred to the University of Halle on November 1, 1933, on the basis of Section 5 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service . Here he died two years later after a short, serious illness. His Jewish wife, who Stenzel married in Breslau in 1910, emigrated to the United States with her son Joachim Stenzel in 1939 and lived in Berkeley . Her mother escaped deportation by suicide .

Julius Stenzel was one of the most prominent Plato researchers of his time and wrote numerous standard works on the history of philosophy, which were reprinted long after his death. In 1957, with the support of Hans Diller and Gerhard Müller, his widow published his small writings on Greek philosophy (Darmstadt 1957; reprint 1966, 1972).

Stenzel was also a mathematician. With Otto Toeplitz and Heinrich Scholz he led a seminar on ancient mathematics in Kiel and, with Otto Neugebauer and Toeplitz, was the founder of the sources and studies on the history of mathematics (1929). In 1924 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Toronto (intuition and thinking in the classical theory of Greek mathematics).

Works (selection)

  • About two terms of platonic mysticism: zoon and kinesis . Wroclaw Printing Cooperative, Wroclaw 1914.
  • Studies on the development of the Platonic dialectic from Socrates to Aristotle . Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1917.
  • On the problem of the history of philosophy . Göttingen 1921. Also in: Kant Studies , Volume 26, pp. 416–453. Phil. Habilitation thesis 1920.
  • Number and shape in Plato and Aristotle . Teubner, Leipzig 1924.
  • Science and state sentiments in Plato. Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1927. Speech at the foundation of the Reich of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on January 18, 1927 .
  • Plato the educator . F. Meiner, Leipzig 1928 (2nd edition Hamburg 1961).
  • Ancient metaphysics . Oldenbourg, Munich 1931 ( online ).
  • The national task of the humanistic grammar school . In: New Year Books for Science and Youth Education 9 (1933), pp. 315–328.
  • Philosophy of language . Oldenbourg, Munich 1934.
  • State and history . Oldenbourg, Munich 1934.
  • Platonism then and now Rascher, Zurich 1934.
Posthumously
  • Small writings on Greek philosophy . Gentner, Darmstadt 1956.
  • Sense, meaning, concept, definition . Gentner, Darmstadt 1958.

literature

  • Werner Jaeger : Julius Stenzel † . In: Gnomon 12 (1936), pp. 108-112.
  • Hans-Christian Günther : Martin Heidegger's letters to Julius Stenzel (1928-1932) . In: Heidegger Studies 16 (2000), pp. 11–33.
  • William M. Calder III : The Letters of Ulrich from Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Julius Stenzel . In: Antike und Abendland 25 (1979), pp. 83-96.
  • Eckart Mensching : Stenzel, Joachim: "From Kiel via Italy to Hastings, Nebraska" - fragments . In: Latin and Greek in Berlin 37.3 (1993), pp. 89-95.
  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 392f.

Web links

Wikisource: Julius Stenzel  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Julius Stenzel  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Stenzel: e ratione, quae inter carminum epicorum prooemia et hymnicam Graecorum poesin intercedere videatur. H. Fleischmann, Breslau 1908. ( Digitized  - Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 233.
personal data
SURNAME Stenzel, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stenzel, Julius August Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1935
Place of death Halle (Saale)