Otfried Eberz

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Otfried Eberz , actually Jakob Maria Remigius Eberz (born October 1, 1878 in Limburg an der Lahn , † March 21, 1958 in Munich ) was a German cultural philosopher and religious scholar .

Career

Eberz studied classical philology in Würzburg , Bonn , Berlin and Munich . In 1902 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Würzburg on the subject of Plato's Philebos . He continued his philosophical, religious-historical and archaeological studies in Paris , Heidelberg , London , Florence and Rome .

After the First World War , articles by him appeared in various magazines, especially in the Catholic highlands (until 1936). In 1943 he married Lucia Teschner. From 1944 to 1951 Eberz lived in Potsdam , from then on often in rural seclusion in Middle Franconia . He died in Munich in 1958. Most of his work was published from the estate by his widow.

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Eberz's leitmotif is the “two-gender being”, or the interpretation of gender polarity and androgyny from a historical-philosophical and Gnostic point of view. In his collection of essays On the Rise and Fall of the Male Age of the World (1931), Eberz put forward the thesis that the current "male age" is in decline and is gradually being replaced by an opposing, balancing current. The “male age” left behind “death and desolation” and was dying of the “hubris of its own principle”. Eberz left an extensive philosophical-theological elaboration of this basic idea in the book Sophia and Logos (written in 1948, published posthumously in 1967).

His brother Josef Eberz was a graphic artist and painter who was influenced by expressionism (including numerous church paintings, including in the Frauen-Friedenskirche Frankfurt a. M., St. Rupertus Church Freilassing). His paintings also show a clear fascination for androgynous figures.

Eberz was friends with Carl Schmitt , who occasionally referred to Eberz in his work.

bibliography

  • On the rise and fall of the male age. Bergstadtverlag, Breslau 1931.
  • The three seals of the fate of the West: Aeneid-Commedia-Faust. Munich 1959.
  • Sophia and Logos, or the Philosophy of Restoration. Munich 1967.
  • Sophia Logos and the Adversary. A historical-philosophical thesis. 2nd edition, Munich 1978.
  • Catholic sociology. Munich 1979.

Secondary literature

  • Hans-Dietrich Sander : Without hope of a Syracuse. The philosopher of feminism: One hundred years ago Otfried Eberz was born in Limburg , in: Die Welt, September 27, 1978.
  • Lucia Eberz: Otfried Eberz and Potsdam , in: Staatsbriefe 7–8 / 2000.
  • Victor and Victoria Trimondi: Reflections on the Book of Sophia and Logos

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personal data
SURNAME Eberz, Otfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberz, Jakob Maria Remigius (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural philosopher and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1958
Place of death Munich