Karl Albert Scherner

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Karl Albert Scherner (born July 25, 1825 in Deutsch-Krawarn near Ratibor , † June 6, 1889 in Breslau ) was a German philosopher and psychologist .

Life

Karl Albert Scherner was born in 1825 as the son of the court actuary Albrecht Scherner and Josephine Preuss near Ratibor in Silesia. He had a brother, who died early in his lifetime, and a sister, the youngest of the siblings. After attending the country school in Krawarn , Karl Albert switched to the grammar school in Ratibor. He studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Breslau since May 1846. Scherner's professors were the Catholic theologian Peter Joseph Elvenich , the philosopher Christian Julius Braniß (1792–1878), the aesthetician and literary historian Karl August Timotheus Kahlert and the Catholic dogmatist and Canon Johann Baptist Baltzer . The philosophical training was thus under the sign of reform Catholicism , as it was shaped by Georg Hermes and Anton Günther . This was based on the modern philosophy of Immanuel Kant , Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling . In 1850, Scherner completed his studies with an award-winning dissertation. In it he compared Plato's definition of the beautiful with the definition of God. In 1858 Scherner completed his habilitation in Breslau - after a long period of nervous illness and the death of his father - with a Latin dissertation on the distinction between spirit and matter and their natural connection in humans.

A letter that Scherner had sent to the editors of the Schlesische Zeitung on May 31, 1877, indicates that he had meanwhile married.

Services

Title page of the work The Life of Dream .

As a private lecturer, Scherner held regular lectures for over 13 years on general psychology as well as on special topics such as dreams, the psychology of women and great men like Friedrich the Great and Joachim Nettelbeck , literary characters like King Lear and Hamlet , and magnetism and the animal soul and the psychology of proverbs. During the Napoleonic Wars, Nettelbeck had shown a great deal of civic spirit and moral courage. - In the summer of 1872 Scherner seems to have given up his teaching activity, apparently because he was not appointed and both the financial as well as the academic success were too long in coming for him. This assumption seems to be confirmed by the fact that he gave his last weekly course in the winter of 1871 at the very moment when Wilhelm Dilthey , who was called to Breslau, gave a three-hour lecture on anthropology and psychology and a one -hour lecture on Spinoza and his influence on Goethe offered with success. Scherner's list of publications also confirms this assumption. After the monograph in 1861 on the life of the dream , which was announced as the “first book”, two geographical books were published in 1875 and 1876 (Tatra guides). It was not until 1879 that another work of psychological content appeared under the title: That the soul is: New research and discoveries in letters , evidently due to the new discovery and increased reception by Johannes Volkelt and Robert Vischer . Scherner's publications on dreams are still considered to be the leading publications on this topic in his time, alongside those of Ludwig von Strümpell and Wilhelm Wundt . Sigmund Freud referred to Scherner in his Interpretation of Dreams . However, Scherner - like Wundt and von Strümpel - preferred scientifically or somatically justifiable theories and not - to the same extent as Freud tried - also specifically psychological ones, in which mental conditions had their own kind of regularity, cf. also dream interpretation at the object level . Scherner's hypotheses sometimes seem quite bizarre today, which can be demonstrated using the example of his somatic symbol formations , cf. also → latent dream content .

Works

(Abstract)

  • Life of dream . 1861.
  • Discoveries in the realm of the soul. First book: The life of the dream. Heinrich Schindler-Verlag, Berlin 1861.
  • That the soul is: New research and discoveries in letters. 1879

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Stefan Goldmann : Via Regia to the Unconscious: Freud and dream research in the 19th century , Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2003. ISBN 3-89806-273-2 , pp. 236–243.
  2. ↑ Christoph Türcke : Philosophy of Dreams , CH Beck, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-406-57637-9 ; P. 21 f. to Stw. "Karl Scherner".
personal data
SURNAME Scherner, Karl Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH German cravat
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1889
Place of death Wroclaw