Max Schasler

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Max Schasler , baptized as a Protestant Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Schasler , (born August 26, 1819 in Deutsch Krone , † June 13, 1903 in Jena ) was a German philosopher of the Hegelian School , linguist , art critic and editor of the journal Die Dioskuren .

Life

Max Schasler's father, Johannes Karl Schasler, wanted his son to become a theologian for financial reasons. After graduating from high school at the Royal High School in Bromberg , Schasler, while studying theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1841/1842, attended linguistic lectures, including those from Ferdinand Nesselmann , primarily philosophical lectures from Hegel's student Karl Rosenkranz , to whom he owed his philosophical orientation . From 1843 to 1845 he continued his theology studies at the University of Berlin with Franz Ferdinand Benary , Philipp Konrad Marheineke and August Neander , but switched to private studies in the field of linguistic philosophy and comparative grammar. In 1845 he received his doctorate with Franz Bopp with the dissertation "De origine et formatione pronominum et priorum numerorum".

From 1843 to 1864 he worked as a private teacher, which made him financially independent so that he could prepare for an academic career. His habilitation thesis "The Elements of Philosophical Linguistics Wilhelm von Humboldt", printed in 1847, was rejected by Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg , who was known as a prominent critic of Hegel. Nonetheless, this work enabled Schasler to join the (Hegelian) "Philosophical Society", which he took over as chairman in the 1870s. Schasler joined literary-political circles in Berlin and became a journalist for the political- satirical magazine Kladderadatsch . In 1848 he was considered one of the political leaders of the March Revolution . In February 1849 Nahida Ruth , who later became a writer and journalist, was born out of wedlock to Max Schasler and Nahida Sturmhöfel , a poet and one of the first pioneers in the field of women . The parents' relationship had failed before she was even born, as Schasler was expelled from Prussia for revolutionary activities . The child lived with the mother in France, Italy and Sicily and returned to Germany in 1864. Max Schasler, after trying to do his habilitation again at Heidelberg University with his work on Wilhelm von Humboldt , was also expelled from Baden for political reasons.

An academic career was now denied to him, so that he devoted himself to art studies. In 1850 he went first to Leipzig , then back to Berlin in 1851, where he was allowed to settle under the prohibition of political activity. Schasler represented an idealistic conception of art and he published his art-historical treatises, exhibition reports and reviews in the journal Die Dioskuren, which he edited . From 1856 to 1875 he was editor and later the sole publisher of the magazine, the subtitle of which was initially “Magazine for Art, Art Industry and Artistic Life” and from 1860 “Deutsche Kunst-Zeitung”. Main organ of the German art associations ”. Schasler became one of the most influential art critics in Germany and, in 1872, a full member of the Reich Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam . From 1877 he worked as an art critic in Rudolstadt , Meiningen and Jena, where in 1884 a last attempt at a habilitation failed due to the resistance of Otto Liebmann , defender of Kant's philosophy .

His estate is in the Jena University Library .

Publications (selection)

  • The mural by Wilhelm von Kaulbach in the stairwell of the Neues Museum zu Berlin , Berlin, 1854, digitalized BSB
  • Berlin's art treasures , 2 volumes, 1856
  • Die Dioskuren , 1856–1875 Digitized UB Heidelberg
  • Hegel: Popular thoughts from his works. Compiled for the educated of all nations and provided with a short biography by Dr. Max Schasler. With the portrait of Hegel in steel engraving , Berlin 1873, digitized BSB
  • The realm of irony , 1879
  • The school of wood-cutting art: history, technique and aesthetics of the wood-cutting art ; with explanation Ill., JJ Weber, Leipzig, 1866
  • Aesthetics as a philosophy of beauty and art , critical history of aesthetics from Plato to the present, 2 volumes, Berlin 1872, reprint 1971
  • The importance of illustration in terms of cultural history , in Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel, Leipzig, 1881
  • The system of arts , 1882, 1885
  • Aesthetics: Fundamentals of the science of beauty and art , Freytag, Leipzig, 1886
  • Anthropogeny, The general human, its essence and its threefold development , 1888
  • Over half a century. Souvenir pictures from the life of an old fraternity , Jena 1895
Flyer (co-signatory Max Schasler): Announcement of a people's assembly in Berlin for Sunday, April 9, 1848, 5 p.m., Unter den Zelten

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annotation

  1. ↑ Schasler was a folder in the Berliner Volksverein under the tents (see also Berlin March Revolution 1848 and the illustration of one of the leaflets of the association on the right in the article).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The journal "Die Dioskuren" appeared in Berlin from 1856 to 1875. The editor and later sole editor was Max Schasler.
  2. ↑ Schasler, Max (1819-1903): Lecture transcripts, work manuscripts, lecture concept and material collections
personal data
SURNAME Schasler, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schasler, Maximilian Alexander Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, art critic, art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH German crown
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1903
Place of death Jena