Moritz Löwi

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Moritz Löwi ( December 13, 1891 in Breslau - 1942 in the state of Connecticut , United States ) was a German-American philosopher and psychologist.

Live and act

He was the son of the Jewish religion teacher Eduard Löwi from Bohemia whose father was also Jewish . The son Moritz Löwi attended the preschool of the Catholic Realschule and later the Evangelical Elisabet-Gymnasium , where he obtained his Matura in 1913 . Löwi first studied zoology, physics and philosophy at the University of Breslau from 1913 to 1915 and then from 1919 to 1921 after the end of the war. A friend from this time was the later philosopher Wolfgang Cramer . A fellow student from his studies in Breslau was also the later pedagogue Alfred Petzelt .

During the First World War , Löwi did military service in the imperial and royal armies from 1915 to 1919 , as the family were still subjects of the Danube monarchy until then. In 1919 he suffered serious war injuries in Italy and had to interrupt his studies. After the end of the war he was initially a citizen of the newly formed Czechoslovakia . On February 23, 1923, upon application, he received the naturalization certificate from the Wroclaw District President and was able to continue his university career.

His doctoral thesis under the supervision of Richard Hönigswald was Synthesis and System. A contribution to the theory of the whole idea . In this, Löwi differentiated himself from a philosophical orientation towards “pure knowledge” by placing the concept of “ perception ” at the center of his considerations with a critical foundation . As a result of this, the problem of the fundamental justification of the "now and here" arose for him.

"So the now and here must also be related to the meaning of the judgment in a theory of experience."

- Moritz : dissertation

On Rigorosum beside Richard Hönigswald still the philosopher took Matthias Baumgartner (1865-1933), the zoologist Franz Theodor Doflein and physicist Otto Lummer part. On December 24, 1924, he submitted his habilitation thesis at the University of Breslau with the title Threshold Investigations. Theory and experiment . From 1924 he was a private lecturer at the university there and from 1931 he was professor of psychology. In 1933 during National Socialism he was forced to retire. Then in 1938 he emigrated to the USA via Czechoslovakia . From 1941 to 1943 he taught as a Research Associate at Connecticut College for Women .

Fonts (selection)

  • About specific sensory energies. Annals of Philosophy and Philosophical Criticism 6: 142–143 (1927)
  • Of the self and self-consciousness. A contribution to basic research in thought psychology. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft (11) 1930, 19–26
  • Basic concepts of education. Marcus, Breslau 1934
  • About specific sensory energies; Psychology and physiology. Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1927

literature

  • Reinhold Breil: Moritz Löwi: From thought psychology to experimental psychology. To life and work. In: Tomasz Kubalica, Stephan Nachtsheim (ed.): Neo-Kantianism in Poland. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5684-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roswitha Grassl, Peter Richart-Willmes: Thinking in his time: a personal glossary on Richard Hönigswald's environment. Volume 1: Studies from the research project on the life and work of Richard Hönigswald . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-8260-1275-5 , p. 78
  2. ↑ Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha, Armin Stock: German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945: An encyclopedia of persons, supplemented by a text by Erich Stern. Springer-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 3-658-01481-4 , p. 290
  3. ^ Norbert Meder: Between indifference and certainty: Origin and ways of pedagogical skepticism: Contributions to the work of Wolfgang Fischer. Volume 1. Writings on scientific pedagogy. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2625-X , p. 151, notes 6.
  4. ^ Ernst Wolfgang Orth, Dariusz Aleksandrowicz: Studies on Richard Hönigswald's philosophy. Volume 7. Studies and Materials on Neo-Kantianism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1155-4 , pp. 233-235
  5. ↑ Synthesis and System. A contribution to the theory of the whole idea . Dissertation, Breslau 1927, p. 8
  6. ^ Ernst Wolfgang Orth, Dariusz Aleksandrowicz (Ed.): Studies on Richard Hönigwald's philosophy. Volume 7: Studies and Materials on Neo-Kantianism . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1155-4 , p. 233 (1st Hönigswaldsymposium, Wrocław 1992)
  7. ↑ Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha, Armin Stock: German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945: An encyclopedia of persons, supplemented by a text by Erich Stern. Springer-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 3-658-01481-4 , p. 290
personal data
SURNAME Löwi, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Connecticut , United States