Ludwig Lewin

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Ludwig Lewin (born November 12, 1887 in Berlin ; † November 10, 1967 there ) was a German educational scientist, university professor , psychologist , journalist and dramaturge . From 1914 to 1933 and from 1964 until his death he was rector of the Lessing University in Berlin .

Life

Ludwig Lewin first attended the Friedrich-Werdersche Gymnasium in Berlin and in 1907 passed his matriculation examination at the Berlin Sophien-Gymnasium. From 1909 he studied German philology, philosophy and aesthetics, literary history and psychology in Berlin ; In 1911 he moved to Würzburg, where he received his dissertation from Friedrich Hebbel in 1913 . Contribution to a psychological profile of a doctorate was.

From 1914 to 1933 he was rector of the Lessing University in Berlin, which he was able to develop into an intellectual center of Berlin during this time. After his expulsion by the National Socialists , he first practiced as a psychotherapist in Stockholm and worked for Carl Gustav Jung in Zurich in 1935/36 . In 1938 he emigrated to the USA, where he was director of a psychiatric clinic on Long Island from 1943 to 1956 .

In 1964 he returned to Germany and was rector of the Lessing University until his death. As an excellent mediator between science and education, he was able to build on his earlier successes even in old age, renew the importance of the Lessing University as a Berlin educational institution and thus also increase Berlin's reputation as a location for science. 1967 awarded him the Faculty of Arts of the Free University of Berlin , the honorary doctorate .

Ludwig Lewin was born with Lola Leontine Lewin. Heller (born in Warsaw) married; the marriage was the son of Benvenuto (Ben).

The Friends of Lewins included Paul Bjerre, Max Burghardt , Tilla Durieux , Friedrich Ebert , Artur Kutscher , Max Raphael and Edwin Redslob .

The painter Eugene Spiro created a painting by Lewin in 1961.

Ludwig Lewin died two days before his 80th birthday in Berlin and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Publications

  • Friedrich Hebbel. Contribution to a psychogram. Dissertation at the University of Würzburg, Philosophical Faculty, 1913.
  • The hunt for the experience. A book about Georg Kaiser. The forge, Berlin 1926.
  • Source of knowledge. History and cultural history, state, law, society, press, economic life. Berlin 1927.
  • The successful person. Berlin 1928 (ed.).
  • Translation: Paul Bjerre, Dreaming as a healing path for the soul. Systematic diagnosis and therapy for medical practice. Zurich u. Leipzig 1936.

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 721f.
  • Lewin, Ludwig. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 9-11.
  • Ludwig Lewin and the Lessing University, commemorative publication for the tenth anniversary of the Lessing University after its re-establishment in 1965, Berlin 1975.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia. Munich 1999, vol. 6, p. 364.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1113.
  • Wilko von Abercron: Catalog raisonné "Eugen Spiro - mirror of his century". Alsbach 1990, p. 209, No. A-61-1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Where Einstein and Mann taught: The 100-year-old Lessing University builds on great times at Das Berliner Volks-Harvard in: Berliner-Zeitung of March 27, 2002
  2. ↑ Justification for awarding the honorary doctorate to Dr. phil. Ludwig Lewin , from Geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de, accessed on August 26, 2016
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 584.
personal data
SURNAME Lewin, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, university professor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1967
Place of death Berlin