Karlfried founder

Karlfried founder (born April 23, 1928 in Marklissa , Lower Silesia province ; † March 12, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German historian of philosophy .

Life

Founder studied philosophy , German and Protestant theology at the University of Freiburg , then at the University of Münster . There he was in 1954 Joachim Ritter with a thesis on Johann Georg Hamann doctorate . The habilitation took place in Münster in 1965 with a work on Paul Yorck von Wartenburg . He held his inaugural lecture at the University of Münster on May 6, 1967. Founder taught as a professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1970 to 1979 , then at the Institute for the History of Philosophy and the History of the Humanities at the Free University of Berlin . After his retirement in 1996, he lived near Freiburg in the Black Forest for health reasons.

Founder's main areas of work were the philosophy of history , the Enlightenment , also in the form of its Jewish form, the Haskala , and its criticism and philosophy of religion . Other philosophers with whom he has dealt in depth were Baruch de Spinoza and Georg Simmel . In addition, he has also dealt with the developments in classical philology in the 19th century , which were triggered by the pioneering publications of the philologists Jacob Bernays and Friedrich Nietzsche on tragedy theory.

Founder has been co-editor since 1969, after the death of Joachim Ritter since 1976 main editor of the historical dictionary of philosophy initiated by Ritter (volumes 4 to 11), the editing of which moved with him from Bochum to Berlin. He was also co-editor of the Archive for Conceptual History (Volumes 11–46). He was also involved in the edition of Wilhelm Dilthey's collected writings (from volume 18). Most recently he co-edited the diaries of Gershom Scholem . He did not hesitate to search for seemingly remote things. One of the plans he had cherished for a long time, but not carried out, was a “library of rightly forgotten thinkers”.

His students include Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann , Paul Richard Blum , Hannes Böhringer , Klaus Christian Köhnke and Wolbert Smidt .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Reflection on the continuities. To historical thinking of the last decades . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-30129-4 .
• On the philosophy of Count Paul Yorck von Wartenburg. Aspects and new sources . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970 (also: Habilitation thesis Münster 1965)
• Figure and story. Johann Georg Hamann's 'Biblical Reflections' as an approach to a philosophy of history. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1958 (Symposion Vol. 3) ISBN 3-495-44032-1 . [Dissertation Münster 1954 under the title: Johann Georg Hamann's "Biblical Reflections" as an approach to a philosophy of history ]

Editorships

• Gershom Scholem: Diaries, together with essays and drafts up to 1923 .
  • 1st half volume: 1913-1917 . With the collaboration of Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink ed. by Karlfried Gründer and Friedrich Niewöhner . Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, ISBN 3-633-54091-1 .
  • 2nd half volume: 1917–1923 . Edited by Karlfried Gründer, Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink and Friedrich Niewöhner with the assistance of Karl E. Grözinger . Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, ISBN 3-633-54139-X .
• (with Wolfgang Treue): Science Policy in Berlin. Ministers, officials, counselors . Colloquium, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7678-0707-6 .
• (with Nathan Rotenstreich ): Enlightenment and Haskala from a Jewish and non-Jewish perspective . Schneider, Heidelberg 1990 (Wolfenbüttel Studies for Enlightenment, Vol. 14), ISBN 3-7953-0732-5 .
• (with Karl Heinrich Rengstorf ): Criticism of religion and religiosity in the German Enlightenment . Schneider, Heidelberg 1989 (Wolfenbütteler Studies for Enlightenment, Vol. 11), ISBN 3-7953-0728-7 .
• (with Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann): Spinoza in the early days of his religious influence . Schneider, Heidelberg 1984 (Wolfenbütteler Studies for Enlightenment, Vol. 12), ISBN 3-7953-0729-5 .
• (with Hellmut Flashar and Axel Horstmann ): Philology and Hermeutics in the 19th Century. On the history and methodology of the humanities . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1979.
• (with Hannes Böhringer): Aesthetics and sociology at the turn of the century: Georg Simmel. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1976 (Studies on Philosophy and Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 27), ISBN 3-465-01108-2 . (on-line)
• (with Joachim Ritter and Gottfried Gabriel ): Historical dictionary of philosophy . Schwabe, Basel 1971–2007.
• Jacob Bernays: Principles of the lost treatise of Aristotle on the effect of tragedy (first: 1857). Introduced by Karlfried Gründer (Olms, Hildesheim, New York 1970), V-XI.
• The dispute over Nietzsche's birth of tragedy: The writings of Erwin Rohde , Richard Wagner , Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff . Compiled and introduced by Karlfried founder. Olms, Hildesheim 1969. (Olms-Paperbacks, Vol. 40)
• Erwin Metzke : Coincidentia oppositorum. Collected studies on the history of philosophy . Luther-Verlag, Witten 1961. (Research and reports of the Evangelical Study Community, Vol. 19)

items

• M. Heidegger's criticism of science in its historical context , In: Archive for Philosophy , Vol. 11 / 3–4 (June 1962), pp. 312–335
• Jacob Bernays and the dispute over catharsis. In: Epirrhosis. Ceremony for Carl Schmitt . Ed. V. H. Barion, E.-W. Böckenförde , E. Forsthoff, W. Weber (2nd part; Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1968), pp. 495-528; Reprinted in: The Aristotelian Catharsis. Documents of their interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries . With an introduction ed. v. Matthias Luserke . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1991, pp. 352–385
• Socrates in the 19th century . In: H. Fromm, W. Harms, U. Ruberg (eds.): Verbum et signum . Vol. 1: Contributions to Medieval Meaning Research. Munich 1975, 539-553

literature

• Disiecta membra. Studies Karlfried founder for his 60th birthday . Edited by Odo Marquard . With a foreword by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann. Schwabe, Basel 1989 (with a bibliography by Karlfried Gründers, pp. XI - XIV), ISBN 3-7965-0887-1 .
• Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann : Comprehensive learning in person. Karlfried founder in memory. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 16, 2011. (online)
• Hannes Böhringer: Sweeping up broken pieces. My teacher founder. In: Merkur 68.4 (2014), ISSN  0026-0096 , pp. 367-370.

Web links

• Obituary ( Der Spiegel )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philosophical yearbook . Volume 75, 1967, p. 152.