Karl Reinhold von Köstlin

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Karl Reinhold von Köstlin (portrait of Roland Risse in the Tübingen Professorengalerie )

Karl Reinhold Köstlin , from 1877 von Köstlin , (born September 28, 1819 in Bad Urach , † April 11, 1894 in Tübingen ) was a German Protestant theologian , aesthetician and literary historian . As a theologian he is assigned to the Tübingen School .

Life

Karl Reinhold von Köstlin, son of the professor and later Ephorus of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Bad Urach Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb von Köstlin and Johanne Luise Süskind (1796–1874), was admitted to the Evangelical Seminary in Blaubeuren in 1833 and was the first in his class In autumn 1837 the Evangelische Stift and the University of Tübingen to study philosophy and theology. Here he belonged to Ferdinand Christian Baur's group of students and made friends with the philosophers Karl Christian Planck and Albert Schwegler , whose works he left behind he later published. For his study of the Johannine doctrinal concept, Köstlin received the award of the Evangelical Faculty in 1841 and passed the first theological exam with distinction in September of the same year. In the same year he and eight fellow students were one of the founders of the Nordland Association , the parent association of the Normannia Tübingen Association .

In May 1842 he officiated as vicar in Unterlenningen . After his candidate trip (October 1842 to September 1843), which had taken him to Berlin, Dresden, Vienna and Munich, Köstlin took over a repetition position (supervision teacher) at the Blaubeuren seminar and in April 1846 at the Ev. Tübingen Abbey, where he began to give private lectures on the “History of Philosophical Morality” in the winter semester of 1846/47. In 1849 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD and private lecturer at the Protestant theological faculty, 1853 associate professor. With this, Köstlin had achieved the highest rank within Württemberg among all Baur students in the theological subject. Following Friedrich Theodor Vischer , in whose aesthetics he had edited the fifth volume on music (1856), Karl Köstlin took over the chair for aesthetics and art history at the Philosophical Faculty in 1858, and in 1863 he became a full professor. As such, he advocated Goethe's Faust , which was not without controversy among Germanists at the time, Friedrich Hölderlin (first historical-critical edition) and the music of Richard Wagner . In 1876 he also caused the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house to no longer write the composer 's middle name in the new complete edition of Mozart's works Amadé , as was the case up to now , but Amadeus , which then became generally accepted. At the unveiling of the Uhland monument in Tübingen on July 14, 1873, Karl Köstlin gave the keynote address, and he celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the university in 1877 as dean of the Philosophical Faculty.

Köstlin's deep Swabian language was notorious, and his dictum, The real opposition of the fine arts, the Bruschtkaschten of Venus de Milo became proverbial in Württemberg. The obvious contrast between the physical appearance and the intellectual quality of the Tübingen scholar was emphasized again and again, and prompted Professor Edmund Pfleiderer to stylize Köstlin in his funeral speech as the Swabian Socrates , who on the outside was inconspicuous, even strange, inside a rich treasure, a There was an abundance of beauty and goodness.

In his stately 1036-page main work Aesthetik , Karl Köstlin offers a systematic compilation of the concrete forms of beauty encountered in nature and in art, trying to answer the question of the beautiful psychologically. Without denying their merits, he endeavored to move from the then prevailing idealistic-speculative to a realistic-psychological conception of the beautiful: wherever you touch, aesthetics leads back to psychology.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The doctrinal concept of the Gospel and the letters of St. John's and the related New Testament doctrinal concepts , Berlin 1843.
  • The Origin and Composition of the Synoptic Gospels , Stuttgart 1853.
  • Göthe's Faust, his critics and interpreters , Tübingen 1860.
  • Letter to Professor Heinrich Düntzer in Cologne , Tübingen 1861.
  • Spruce . A picture of life. Speech given in Tübingen on May 19, 1862 , Tübingen 1862.
  • Hegel presented to the people in a philosophical, political and national relationship , Tübingen 1870.
  • Aesthetics , Tübingen 1869.
  • Richard Wagner's sound drama: The Ring of the Nibelung, his idea, plot and musical composition , Tübingen 1877
  • About the concept of beauty , Tübingen 1878.
  • The ethics of classical antiquity. First section: Greek ethics to Plato , Tübingen 1887 (reprint Aalen 1975)
  • Prolegomena to Aesthetics , Tübingen 1889.
  • (Editing and editing): Albert Schwegler: History of Philosophy in Outline , Stuttgart 3rd ed. 1857; 4th ed. 1861.
  • (Editing and ed.): Albert Schwegler: History of Greek Philosophy , Tübingen 1859; 2nd edition 1870; 3rd ed. 1882; 2nd edition, Freiburg / Br. 1886.
  • (Ed.): Karl Christian Planck: Testament eines Deutschen , Tübingen 1881; 3rd edition Jena 1925; (Excerpts) Ulm 1954.
  • (Ed.): Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin. With a biographical introduction , Tübingen 1884.

literature

List of literature in the catalog of the University of Freiburg: [1] .

  • Stefan J. Dietrich: “You just have to bite your way through with force.” The Tübingen aesthetician Karl Reinhold Köstlin (1819–1894). A biographical sketch. In: Baussteine ​​zur Tübingen University History, Vol. 8, Tübingen 1997, pp. 49–74.
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Köstlin, Karl Reinhold (from) In: Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance. Edited by Manfred Bosch , Ulrich Gaier, Wolfgang Rapp a. a., Vol. 1.2, Biberach / Riß 2006, p. 88, 212-213 (list of works and references).
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: “Not disturbing for any nation”. The Tübingen aesthetician Köstlin appended Mozart to today's Amadeus. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , Tübingen 2006, No. 131 (June 9), p. 28.
  • Horton Harris: The Tübingen school , Oxford 1975, pp. 96-100, 279-280.
  • Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 978–979 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Maria Köstlin (Ed.): The book of the Köstlin family , Stuttgart 1931, pp. 19-20, 154-155.
  • Pfleiderer, Edmund: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Karl Köstlin , Tübingen 1894.

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personal data
SURNAME Köstlin, Karl Reinhold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köstlin, Carl Reinhold von; Köstlin, Karl Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and aesthetician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Urach
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1894
Place of death Tübingen