Ludwig Kuhlenbeck

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Ludwig W. Kuhlenbeck (born April 25, 1857 in Osnabrück , † May 13, 1920 in Jena ) was a German lawyer.

Life

His parents were master locksmith Rudolf Kuhlenbeck and his wife, b. Kreyenhagen. After attending grammar school in his native Osnabrück, Ludwig Kuhlenbeck studied at the universities of Göttingen, Tübingen and Berlin. He worked as a lawyer in Göttingen, Osnabrück, Halle and Jena. From 1902 to 1908 he taught as a professor of German law in Lausanne . He translated Giordano Bruno and was a member of the Giordano Bruno Association founded in Berlin in 1900.

Kuhlenbeck was a representative of Arthur de Gobineau- oriented racism . In June 1905 he gave an introductory lecture on "The political results of modern race research" at the Pan-German Association Day in Worms .

Kuhlenbeck married Helene Ayrer in 1886. The marriage resulted in a daughter and two sons. This included the physician Hartwig Kuhlenbeck , who emigrated to the USA in 1933 .

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Herbert Lemmel : Ludwig Kuhlenbeck (former professor for German law in Lausanne). A contribution in the fight for a right under the law of life . Munich 1938, OCLC 299896248 .
  • Julia Szemerédy: Ludwig Kuhlenbeck - A representative of social Darwinist and racial legal thought around 1900 . Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-7255-4554-5 . review

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kuhlenbeck, Ludwig W. In: Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 6th edition, Leipzig 1912.
  2. Wulf Wülfing, Karin Bruns, Rolf Parr (eds.): Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and associations 1825-1933. Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, p. 164 ( online ).
  3. ^ Peter Walkenhorst: Nation - Volk - Rasse: Radical Nationalism in the German Empire 1890-1914. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, p. 111 ( online ).