Michael Frensch

Michael Frensch (* 1948 in Marburg an der Lahn ) is a German anthroposophical author.

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Michael Frensch studied philosophy, Romance languages ​​and art history in Munich and Paris. In 1978 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Renaissance philosopher Nikolaus von Kues . He is the publishing director of the anthroposophically oriented Novalis Verlag, in which he published the Swiss cultural magazine Novalis until 2004. He has written numerous anthroposophical books on topics in the humanities.

Frensch is considered a leading expert on the work of the Baltic mystic Valentin Tomberg . Together with other specialists in Tomberg's life and work such as Elisabeth Heckmann, Wilhelm Maria Maas, Friederike Migneco and Ludmilla Zimmermann, he is working on Tomberg's intellectual legacy. Since 2016, he and his wife Eva Maria have been running the Tomberg Archive, which is managed by the Anna Sophien Foundation. Volume 3 of a comprehensive Tomberg project was recently published: Valentin Tomberg. Life - Work - Effect (2016).

Michael Frensch played a key role in establishing the Sophien Foundation (1988) in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. This is planning the establishment of a research and educational facility based on platonic principles, the Sophien Academy. The aim is to continue the tradition of the Platonic Academy , which, according to Michael Frensch's anthroposophical perspective, had its most important representatives in the School of Chartres , the Academy of Florence, the Jenenser Early Romanticism and the Weimar Classicism.

In his book (2007) The Second Coming , Frensch asks what research in the humanities today has to say about the central event of the return of Christ. He takes into account Eastern teachings from the Bodhisattvas , Buddhas , and Avatars .

Frensch is also active as a narrator. His novel Seurat's Secret was published in 2014 .

Michael Frensch lives and works on the Baltic Sea near Flensburg.

Publications

• Differentiation of the spirits based on the Apocalypse of John . Schaffhausen: Novalis Verlag, ISBN 3-907160-67-3
• Seurat's Bridge. From impressionism to modernity . Schaffhausen: Novalis Publishing, ISBN 978-3-907260 --38-8
• The second coming. Reflections on the central event of the present . Schaffhausen: Novalis Verlag, ISBN 3-907160-68-1
• How does the Great Portal open? Humanities reflections on the west portal of Chartres Cathedral . Schaffhausen: Novalis Verlag, ISBN 3-907160-69-X
• Wisdom in person. The Dilemma of Philosophy and the Perspective of Sophiology . Schaffhausen: Novalis Verlag, ISBN 3-907160-57-6
• Christian education and Waldorf education . Schaffhausen: Novalis Verlag, ISBN 3-907160-32-0
• Valentin Tomberg. Life work effect . Volume 1.2., 1944-1973. Schaffhausen Novalis Verlag, ISBN 3-907160-82-7
• The Tabula Smaragdina. A hermetic consideration. In: Hermetika 4/1983, (17) 18-24; 5/1984, 11-20; 6/1984, 10-18.
• Who was Valentin Tomberg? In: Friedhelm Köhler , Friederike Migneco , Benedikt Maria Trappen : Freedom. Awareness. Responsibility. Festschrift for Volker Zotz for his 60th birthday. Edition Habermann, Munich 2016 ( ISBN 978-3960250098 ), pp. 289-310
• A friend from Beyond the Grave. My meeting with Valentin Tomberg.

Web links

• Thomas Körbel: The Tabula Smaragdina according to Michael Frensch ( Memento from May 12, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
• National Socialism - the silhouette of anthroposophy. Interim résumé on the state of research ( memento from January 31, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Michael Frensch in conversation with Arfst Wagner

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