Kurt Fischer (Buddhist)

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Kurt Fischer (born March 2, 1892 in Berlin as Curt Bruno Otto Fischer; † August 25, 1942 there ) was born as the son of a clerk at Hochmeisterstraße 11 in the Rosenthaler Vorstadt (today Husemannstraße 22 in Prenzlauer Berg ). He was an official and pioneer of Buddhism in Germany . He came to Buddhism in 1918 through a book by Paul Dahlke . After he founded the Buddhist House in Berlin-Frohnau , Fischer also moved there. When differences arose with his sister and successor Bertha Dahlke after Dahlke's death , Fischer founded his own journal Buddhist Life and Thinking in 1930 , in which he also published numerous articles and reviews of his own until 1942.

Fonts

Kurt Fischer published over 80 of his own essays and more than 80 reviews in his magazine, but to this day there are only two independent publications, one of which was published after his death. A comprehensive bibliography can be found at Hecker.

  • Reality as an aid. 1930.
  • The five precepts. 1963. (Also called Pathways of Buddhist thought. 1971)

literature

  • Hellmuth Hecker : Life pictures of German Buddhists. A bio-bibliographical handbook. Volume I: The Founders. 2nd Edition. University of Konstanz, Konstanz 1996, ISBN 3-930959-09-7 , pp. 29-37.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth certificate StA Berlin Xb No. 725/1892 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pioneer of Buddhism in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1942
Place of death Berlin