Otto Buek

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Otto Buek (born November 19, 1873 in Saint Petersburg , † 1966 , probably in an old people's home near Paris ) was a German philosopher , writer and translator .

life and work

In his youth Otto Buek was friends with the later writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé , who also came from St. Petersburg . In Heidelberg he studied philosophy , mathematics and chemistry and a doctorate in Marburg , where he may have with Kurt Wildhagen came into contact with a dissertation on the topic " The atomic theory and Faraday's concept of matter : a logical investigation" to Dr. phil. He later lived in Berlin as a journalist, translator (of works by Tolstoy , Herzen and Unamuno ) and as editor (with Kurt Wildhagen of works by Turgenev , a complete edition of Gogol and two volumes of the ten-volume Cassirer edition of the works of Immanuel Kant ); in the 1920s he also worked as a correspondent for the Argentine magazine La Nación . He was u. a. friends with Senna Hoy and Franz Pfemfert .

Buek belonged to the circle around Alfred Richard Meyer . Philosophically he was considered a neo-Kantian and supporter of the philosopher Hermann Cohen, who taught in Marburg until 1912 . In the commemorative publication for Hermann Cohen's 70th birthday, Buek is represented with an article on “Faraday's system of nature and its conceptual bases”.

In 1913, Buek tried with the historian Paul Herre (1876–1962) to publish the journal Die Geisteswissenschaften . In contrast to the journal Die Naturwissenschaften published by Arnold Berliner (1862–1942) in the same year and still appearing today, it had to be discontinued in 1914.

As a student friend of the doctor and pacifist Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874–1964), Buek, together with Albert Einstein and Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster , signed Nicolai's " Appeal to Europeans " in October 1914 as a counter-declaration to justify the German attack on neutral Belgium ( Manifesto of 93 ) ; the appeal could only appear in 1917 as an introduction to Nicolai's "Biology of War" in Zurich .

Johannes R. Becher dedicates the poem "Prayer in Winter 1915/16" to "Doctor Otto Buek in friendship". In a letter of December 18, 1916 to Katharina Kippenberg, he counts Buek among the "seven people I love".

At the beginning of the twenties, Buek worked with Nikolai and others such as “Prof.” Otto Fanta from Prague in the making of the first major science film, initially called “Einstein Film” , which, after Einstein's protests, was shown under the title The Basics Einstein's theory of relativity .

Otto Buek later emigrated to France, where Paul Raabe found him in a nursing home in 1960 ; Here he must have died in 1966, very old.

Publications

  • Atomistics and Faraday's concept of matter. In: Archives for the History of Philosophy. Vol. 18, 1904, ISSN  0943-3988 , pp. 65-139 (also as a separate print: Reimer, Berlin 1905).
  • Critique of Marxism. In: The Action . Vol. 1, 1911, col. 1029-1033.
  • Faraday's system of nature and its conceptual bases. In: Philosophical Treatises. Hermann Cohen on his 70th birthday (July 4, 1912). Cassirer, Berlin 1912, pp. 99-122.

literature

  • Johannes R. Becher : To Europe. 1916. In: Johannes R. Becher: Collected works. Volume 1: Selected Poems 1911–1918. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1965, note p. 632.
  • Johannes R. Becher: Becher and the island. Letters and seals 1916–1954. Edited by Rolf Harder and Ilse Siebert. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1981, p. 39.
  • Fritz Max Cahen: The Alfred Richard Meyer Circle. In: Imprimatur. NF Vol. 3, 1961/62, ISSN  0073-5620 , pp. 190-193, here p. 191.
  • Нина Дмитриева: Русское неокантианство: "Марбург" в России. историко-философские очерки. РОССПЭН, Москва 2007, ISBN 978-5-8243-0835-8 .
  • Hubert Goenner : Einstein in Berlin. 1914-1933. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52731-0 , pp. 74, 105, 160f, 355.
  • Franz Pfemfert (ed.): The action. 1st year, 1911. Reprint with introduction and commentary by Paul Raabe . Kösel, Munich 1961, p. 40.
  • Wolf Zuelzer : The Nicolai case. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-7973-0384-X , pp. 33f., 139, 192ff.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ conceived as a weekly for the entire field of philosophy, psychology, mathematics, religious studies, history, linguistics and literary studies, art studies, law and political science, social science, economics and statistics, military science, regional and ethnology, education , published by Veit & Comp. in Leipzig - from October 1, 1913
  2. ↑ Buek had at the suggestion of Arthur Kronfeld , who following his criticism of psychoanalysis in 1912 in issue 16 of Berliner's The Natural Sciences from April 18, 1913 an extensive article about friend's psychoanalytic theories , even three could publish reviews of Karl Jaspers added
  3. ^ After Hubert Goenner: Einstein in Berlin. Beck, Munich 2005, pp. 160f.
  4. ^ After Hubert Goenner: Einstein in Berlin. Beck, Munich 2005, p. 355.

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personal data
SURNAME Buek, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH 1966