Ludwig Busse

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Carl Heinrich August Ludwig Busse (born September 27, 1862 in Braunschweig , † September 13, 1907 in Halberstadt ) was a German philosopher and university professor.

Life

Ludwig Busse was born in Braunschweig in 1862 as the son of the businessman Ernst Heinrich Ludwig Busse (1827–1905). After attending grammar school in Braunschweig, he studied in Leipzig , Innsbruck and Berlin . His academic teachers included Wilhelm Dilthey , G. Lasson, H. Ebbinghaus and F. Paulsen. Buses in 1885 in Berlin with a thesis on contributions to the development history of Spinoza Dr. phil. PhD. From 1887 to 1893 he taught in English at the Imperial University of Tokyo , where he read on logic, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. One of his students was Yasuji Otsuka (1868–1931), who in 1900 was the first Japanese to be appointed professor of aesthetics at the University of Tokyo.

After his return to Germany Busse completed his habilitation in 1894 at the University of Marburg with the thesis Philosophy and Epistemology . In 1896 he took over a full professorship at the University of Rostock before moving to Königsberg as a university professor in 1898 . Both times he was preferred to Edmund Husserl . Further stations of his university teaching activities were Münster from 1904 and finally Halle (Saale) from 1907 . From 1902 he headed the magazine for philosophy and philosophical criticism .

Ludwig Busse died in September 1907 at the age of 44 as a result of a gallstone operation in Halberstadt. He was buried in Halle (Saale) in the Giebichenstein cemetery.

Busse was influenced by Hermann Lotze , whose triad of principles, facts and values ​​he followed. His main work Geist und Körper, Seele und Leib , published in 1903, is considered a classic work on the problem of the psycho-physical relationship at the turn of the century. The anti-materialist Busse shows himself in it as a representative of an idealistic-spiritual metaphysics. The body world is only the appearance of reality for the understanding mind.

Fonts (selection)

  • Philosophy and epistemology , Hirzel, Leipzig 1894.
  • The interactions between body and soul and the law of conservation of energy , 1900.
  • Mind and body, soul and body , 1903.
  • The world views of the great philosophers of the modern age , 6th edition, Teubner, Leipzig, Berlin 1917.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig (Louis) Busse . In: Catalogus Professorum Halensis of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (accessed February 8, 2020). The place of death given in the Neue Deutsche Biographie Halle is wrong. The BBL also incorrectly names Halle (Saale) as the place of death.
  2. ↑ Kazue Honda: Between Old Japanese Tradition and Western Innovation , Dissertation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 2005, p. 76 ( online )
  3. ^ Edmund Husserl: Correspondence . Edited by Elisabeth Schuhmann in connection with Karl Schuhmann, Hua Dok III / 3: Die Göttinger Schule , Dordrecht 1994, ISBN 0-7923-2175-8 , p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Busse, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busse, Carl Heinrich August Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1907
Place of death Halberstadt