Ludwig Stein (philosopher)

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Ludwig Stein (born November 12, 1859 in Erdö-Bénye , Austrian Empire ; died July 13, 1930 in Salzburg ) was a Hungarian - Swiss philosopher , sociologist , rabbi , publicist and pacifist .

Life

Ludwig Stein studied philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Halle and also trained as a rabbi. From 1881 to 1883 he lived as a rabbi in Berlin and from 1883 to 1886 as a journalist there . In 1886 he was appointed private lecturer in philosophy at the Zurich Polytechnic and the University of Zurich . From 1891 to 1909 he was a full professor of philosophy at the University of Bern , where he also regularly offered courses in sociology . Among his listeners were Walter Rathenau , Leo Trotsky , Rosa Luxemburg , Anna Tumarkin , Cay Lorenz von Brockdorff and Karl Radek . In 1893 he received Swiss citizenship . In 1909 he organized the 7th International Congress for Sociology of the Institut International de Sociologie in Bern.

From 1909 Stein lived again in Berlin as a political journalist and political advisor. There he advised the former Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, among others . In 1914 he and the politician Ernst Bassermann founded the Wednesday Society (not to be confused with the Berlin Wednesday Society, which had existed since 1863 ). He was a member of the standing committee of the International Peace Bureau and promoted pacifist ideas. After the First World War , which he spent in Germany, he took part in the peace conferences in Geneva and Rapallo and took a mediating position.

He was co-founder and editor of the Archive for the History of Philosophy and the Archive for Systematic Philosophy and Sociology , as well as the editor of the magazine Nord und Süd as well as the Vossische Zeitung and the Berliner Zeitung .

Works (selection)

  • At the turn of the century. On-line
  • From the life of an optimist. Autobiography. Bridge Publishing, 1930.

literature

  • Friedrich Nietzsche's Weltanschauung and its dangers: a critical essay. Reimer, Berlin 1893. urn : nbn: de: gbv: 9-g-4880650 (digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania digital library)
  • Peter Hoeres : Dum-dum bullets made of ink. The political journalist Ludwig Stein and the First World War. In: Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e. V., Newsletter 23,2 (2004), pp. 25-28. pdf
  • Peter Hoeres: War of the Philosophers. German and British philosophy in the First World War. Paderborn 2004, pp. 562-577.
  • Klaus Jochen Arnold: Review of: Peter Hoeres: War of the Philosophers. German and British philosophy in the First World War. Paderborn 2004. In: H-Soz-Kult . December 14, 2004, (Link)
  • Stein, Ludwig. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 433-442.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Stein, Noted Political Observer and Philosopher, Dies. In: Jewish Telegraph Agency. July 16, 1930. online

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Stein, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Erdö-Bénye , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1930
Place of death Salzburg