Karl Graf Ballestrem
Karl Graf Ballestrem , full name Karl Ludwig Graf von Ballestrem (born July 2, 1939 in Dresden , † May 8, 2007 in Eichstätt ) was a German political scientist and philosopher .
family
The father, Carl Wolfgang Graf von Ballestrem (1903-1994), came from the Silesian Ober-Gläsersdorf near Lüben and worked in the family company. The mother, Theresia Princess zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1909-2000), was a sister of Prince Karl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , who was President of the Central Committee of German Catholics from 1949 to 1969 . Karl Ballestrem was married to Consuelo Countess Ballestrem (born Maria del Consuelo Freiin von Gagern , born 1945) and had four children.
Life
After graduating from high school, Ballestrem studied philosophy and Sovietology at the then Catholic University of Friborg (Switzerland) (1958–1959; 1960–1965) and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1959–1960). In 1965 he received his doctorate under Joseph Maria Bocheński in Freiburg . He was first assistant professor at Rosary College in Chicago in 1966 and from 1967 to 1971 professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Notre Dame . After working from 1971 to 1976 as a research assistant at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) , he completed his habilitation in 1976 in the social sciences department of the LMU. From 1977 to 1984 he was a Visiting Professor at the Geschwister-Scholl Institute of the LMU held, in 1984, he received a call to the Chair of Political Science II at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt , 2003, he was given emeritus status . In addition, since 1984 he has held a professorship at the Munich School of Politics ; he also taught at the same time at the Gregoriana in Rome.
For many years he was chairman of the German Society for Research into Political Thought . His main areas of work were political ethics and the history of political ideas from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Ballestrem was able to give lectures and lectures in English, French and Italian. Until his death he was co-editor of the yearbook Political Thinking .
In 1977 he was awarded the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize . In 2003 he received the environmental award from the Hardheim Nature Conservation Union. Ballestrem was Knight of Honor and Knight of Devotion to the sovereign Order of Malta .
Fonts
- Russian philosophical terminology / Russkaja filosofskaja terminologija / Russian philosophical terminology. Reidel, Dordrecht 1964, ISBN 90-277-0036-2 .
- The Soviet metaphysics of knowledge and its relationship to Hegel. Reidel, Dordrecht 1968, ISBN 90-277-0037-0 .
- Power and morals. A basic problem in political ethics. Minerva publication, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-597-30053-7 .
- with Henning Ottmann (Ed.): Political Philosophy of the 20th Century. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55142-6 .
- with Bernhard Sutor (ed.): Problems of international justice. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-56010-7 .
- (Ed.): Natural law and politics. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07670-2 .
- with Hans Buchheim , Manfred Hättich and Heinz Hürten (eds.): Social ethics and political education. Festschrift for Bernhard Sutor on his 65th birthday. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1995, ISBN 3-506-79799-9 .
- with Henning Ottmann (Ed.): Theory and Practice. Festschrift for Nikolaus Lobkowicz on his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08706-2 .
- Adam Smith. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-45976-5 .
- (Ed.): International Justice. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3039-2 .
- with Sergio Belardinelli and Thomas Cornides (eds.): Church and Education in Europe. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14767-6 .
literature
- Lothar R. Waas (ed.): Politics, morals and religion - opposites and additions. Festschrift for Karl Graf Ballestrem on his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-428-11092-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Graf Ballestrem in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Karl Graf Ballestrem in the German Digital Library
- Website of the Ballestrem company and family archive
- Gothaisches Genealogical Handbook of the Count's Houses: https://gotha-handbuecher.de/
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prize winners of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize. (PDF) Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Gedächtnisstiftung, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ballestrem, Karl Graf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ballestrem, Karl Ludwig Graf von; Ballestrem, Karl G .; Ballestrem, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist, philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2007 |
| Place of death | Eichstatt |