Leonard H. Ehrlich

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Leonard H. Ehrlich (born April 2, 1924 in Vienna ; † June 8, 2011 in Hingham, MA , USA ) emigrated to the United States in 1939 and taught philosophy since 1956 and also Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1981 .

Life

Leonard H. Ehrlich first attended the general elementary school in Vienna and then the Jewish Chajes-Realgymnasium . Soon after Austria was annexed to the German Reich , Jewish children were banned from attending school. Ehrlich joined others in a Zionist training center that was supposed to prepare the young people for emigration to Palestine. Just in time for the outbreak of war in 1939, he and his parents received an exit visa to the USA.

After finishing school in the USA, Leonard H. Ehrlich was drafted into the US Army . In 1944 he married Edith Schwarz, also an émigré from Vienna whom he knew from school. Soon after, the invasion of Normandy began and Ehrlich served as a medic on the front lines in France, Germany and Austria.

From 1948 to 1951, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich studied with Karl Jaspers in Basel . At Yale University , they completed their studies with a Ph.D. from - Edith Ehrlich in German studies, Leonard H. Ehrlich in philosophy with a thesis on Jasper's Philosophy of Science .

Since 1956 Leonard H. Ehrlich taught philosophy and since 1981 also Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . He also taught several guest semesters at various German universities. In 1988 he was appointed to the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel . At the end of 2010, a symposium was held in his honor by the Karl Jaspers Society of North America , of which he was co-founder and long-time chairman. Leonard H. Ehrlich died on June 8, 2011 in Hingham, MA, USA.

Act

Leonard H. Ehrlich is one of the most important representatives of existential philosophy in the Anglo-American language area. He was co-founder and long-time chairman of the International Karl Jaspers Society . Together with his wife Edith Ehrlich, he has translated several works by Jaspers into English. With his philosophical work on Karl Jaspers , Franz Rosenzweig , Paul Tillich and - somewhat more critically - on Martin Heidegger , he has made a significant contribution to the discussion of existential philosophy in the USA. Another focus of his research is Judaic Studies, in which he is particularly concerned with the cultural-historical research into European Jewry and making the consequences of its destruction visible.

Fonts

  • Karl Jaspers: Philosophy as Faith (Jaspers Studies, I), Amherst 1975
  • Karl Jaspers Today: Philosophy at the Threshold of the Future (Ed. With R. Wisser), Washington 1988
  • Karl Jaspers: Philosopher among Philosophers - Philosopher unter Philosophen (Ed. With R. Wisser), Würzburg / Amsterdam 1993
  • Questionability of the Jewish existence. Philosophical studies on the modern fate of the Jews , Verlag Karl Alber ( Fermenta philosophica ), Freiburg / Munich 1993. ISBN 3-495-47750-0
  • Karl Jaspers. The Great Philosophers (Ed. With M. Ermarth; translated with Edith Ehrlich), Vol. III u. IV, New York 1993 and 1994
  • Karl Jaspers: Philosophy on the Way to "World Philosophy" (Ed. With R. Wisser), Würzburg / Amsterdam 1998
  • Karl Jasper's Philosophy: Present and Future , Würzburg 2003
  • (with Edith Ehrlich) Choices under the Duress of the Holocaust. Vol. 1: Vienna. Vol 2: Theresienstadt , in press
  • As a Jewish visiting professor in Kassel , in: Prisma 43 (December 1989), Kassel 1989
  • Early experiences, later facts. Impressions of my childhood in Vienna , in: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Hrsg.): Visualizing the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel 1987–1998 , Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2518-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on the death of Leonard H. Ehrlich ( memento from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on uni-kassel.de, accessed on September 14, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Ehrlich, Leonard H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2011
Place of death Hingham, Massachusetts