Otto Baensch (philosopher)

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Otto Friedrich August Baensch (born July 25, 1878 in Berlin , † September 17, 1936 in Munich ) was a German philosopher and university professor.

Life

He was the son of the civil engineer Otto Baensch (1825–1898) and his second wife Hedwig nee Wiebe. Otto Baensch grew up in Berlin, where he attended the Joachimsthal Gymnasium until he graduated from high school in February 1896 . He then studied philosophy in Freiburg, Berlin and Strasbourg and received his doctorate in 1901 for Dr. phil. He completed his habilitation in Strasbourg in 1906 and worked - interrupted by his military service in World War I - as a private lecturer at the university there. In 1918 he was appointed associate professor and successor to Georg Simmel . In 1919 he was expelled from France as a German and then settled in Munich as a private scholar for philosophy and musicology. He was best known as a Spinoza researcher .

In 1931 Otto Baensch joined the NSDAP and in 1936 went as a representative to the professorship for philosophy at the University of Breslau . He died in Munich that same year.

Works (selection)

  • Johann Heinrich Lambert's philosophy and his position on Kant , Tübingen, Leipzig 1902.
  • A memory of Strasbourg. 5 songs , Chemnitz, Leipzig undated [1922].
  • Philosophy and Life , Hamburg 1937 (reprint Hildesheim 1978).
  • The ethics. Benedict de Spinoza. Shown according to the geometrical method [...] , Hildesheim 1955.

family

Otto Baensch married Hedwig on June 12, 1926 in Uerdingen , the daughter of the doctorate philosopher Friedrich Damerow .

estate

The scientific estate of Otto Baensch is kept in the University Library in Munich.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronique générale , in: Revue Philosophique de Louvain Année 53 (1937), page 165
  2. ↑ In the literature, September 18, 1936 and 1937 can also be found as the date and year of death. The latter information in the German biography is definitely wrong.
personal data
SURNAME Baensch, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baensch, Otto Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1936
Place of death Munich