Max Wentscher

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Max Wentscher (born May 12, 1862 in Graudenz , † September 29, 1942 in Bonn ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Max Wentscher was born in Graudenz in 1866 as the son of a businessman. He attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg, where he graduated from high school in 1881. From 1881 to 1887 he studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig. In 1893 he received his doctorate with the thesis "Lotze's concept of God and its metaphysical justification" in Halle-Wittenberg. In 1897 he completed his habilitation in Bonn. Until 1904 was a private lecturer and adjunct professor in Bonn. From 1904 to 1906 he was associate professor in Koenigsberg, from 1906 to 1918 back in Bonn. From 1918 until his retirement in 1933 he was a full professor for philosophy and education at the University of Bonn . His main areas of work were ethics and the history of philosophy .

Wentscher was Protestant and married to the philosopher Else Wentscher (1877-1946), who translated the works of John Stuart Mill into German. The couple had two daughters.

Works (selection)

  • History of ethics (1931); Vol. 3 of the series History of Philosophy in Longitudinal Cuts by Willy Moog , Berlin: Juncker and Dünnhaupt, 11 Vols.
  • Metaphysics (1928), Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co.
  • Pedagogy (1926), Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co.
  • Fechner and Lotze (1925), Munich: E. Reinhardt
  • Epistemology (1920), Berlin: Association. scientific publisher, Göschen Collection, 2 vols.
  • Introduction to Philosophy (1916), Berlin: Göschen, 4. Neudr.
  • Hermann Lotze (1913), Heidelberg: Winter
  • The problem of freedom of teaching (1907), Heidelberg: JCB Mohr
  • Ethics (1902/1906), Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 2 vols.
  • On physical and psychological causality and the principle of psycho-physical parallelism (1896), Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth

literature

  • Christian Tilitzki : The History of German University Philosophy , 2002
  • Horn, Klaus-Peter: Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century. On the development of the social and professional structure of the discipline from initial institutionalization to expansion , Julius Klinkhardt, 2003, p. 374
personal data
SURNAME Wentscher, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wentscher, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1942
Place of death Bonn