Otto Hamann

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Otto Hamann (born September 4, 1882 in Michaelnbach ; † February 13, 1948 there ) was an Austrian doctor , writer and popular educator .

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In 1910 Hamann succeeded his father as a general practitioner in Michaelnbach. During the First World War in southern Dalmatia , he got to know the natural way of life of the local population.

From 1920 he dealt with numerous treatises and lectures on eugenic measures and called for the abandonment of rationalism and for mutual penetration and fertilization of the areas of the mind in the sense of the early romanticists . He published between 1920 and 1925 as a regular contributor to the magazine Der Wächter . His fragmentary remarks build on Nietzsche on the one hand, and on the traditions of his youth in the rural parental home and in the Kremsmünster Abbey High School on the other .

In 1918 he moved to Linz as a specialist in orthopedics and founded and led a number of cultural and popular education associations:

  • Eichendorffbund for Austria (1919)
  • Linz Urania (1924)
  • Upper Austrian Writers' Association (1930)

He was also a member of the Innviertel Artists Guild . In 1937 he withdrew from any public and literary work.

His Biology of German Poets and Thinkers (1923) appears as a bold, but insufficiently prepared and worked through attempt to explain the connections between intellectual creation and the physical substrate.

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SURNAME Hamann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor, writer and popular educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Michaelnbach
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1948
Place of death Michaelnbach