Max Ettlinger

Max Emil Ettlinger (born January 31, 1877 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 12, 1929 in Ebenhausen near Munich) was a German philosopher , psychologist and educator at the University of Münster . He was the eldest son of the Jewish businessman Emil Ettlinger from Frankfurt and his wife Mathilde nee. Oppenheim . His brother was the writer Karl Ettlinger . Max Ettlinger later converted from the Jewish to the Catholic faith .

After graduating from the Städtisches Gymnasium (today Lessing-Gymnasium ) in Frankfurt in 1895 , Ettlinger studied philosophy in Heidelberg with Kuno Fischer , then in Munich with Theodor Lipps and Georg von Hertling . It was in 1899 with a theme for aesthetics doctorate . From 1903 to 1907 he was the scientific editor of the Catholic magazine Hochland . In 1914 he completed his habilitation for philosophy in Munich through Martin Deutinger and in 1917 was appointed full professor of philosophy at the University of Münster, where he founded and headed the German Institute for Scientific Education . He looked after the next generation of teachers, teacher training and teacher training. He dealt with aesthetics, psychology, including animal psychology , educational science and the history of philosophy . Ettlinger was a neo-Scholastic who tried to combine the Platonic - Aristotelian legacy in the Thomistic tradition with modernity .

Fonts

• The aesthetics of Martin Deutinger in their becoming, essence and work , Kempten and Munich 1914 (habilitation)
• Contributions to the theory of the animal soul and its development , Münster 1925

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Ettlinger in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Josef Player:  Ettlinger, Max Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 666 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Christian Tilitzki: The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . 2002.
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .