Otto von der Pfordten

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Otto von der Pfordten (born May 23, 1861 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 28, 1918 in Brussels ) was a German chemist, philosopher and poet.

Life

Otto von der Pfordten belonged to a Bavarian civil servant family. His father was the lawyer and politician Ludwig von der Pfordten . The mother, Adelgunde, née Marx (1823–1873), was the daughter of a businessman and banker in Leipzig . Otto grew up with his siblings Kurt (1847–1907), Hermann (1857–1933), Elisabeth and Helene (Nelly) in Munich . The lawyer Theodor von der Pfordten was a cousin.

Otto von der Pfordten passed the Abitur examination at the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium in 1877 , with Carl Bezold , Franz von Coluzzi and Fritz Freund , among others . Contrary to what he wanted to study law, he then studied philosophy and chemistry at the universities of Munich (1877–78), Strasbourg and Heidelberg (1885/86); in between (1882/83) he was assessor at the Academy of Sciences in Munich and received his doctorate in chemistry in 1883. phil. From 1886 to 1889 he taught chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1888 he worked as a freelance writer, first in Berlin until 1895 , in Heidelberg from 1896 to 1898 , again in Berlin from 1898 to 1902, then in Munich.

Otto von der Pfordten was married to Sabine Barbara, née Kirschner (* Hausen March 2, 1863). The two sons Ludwig (* 1890) and Hermann (* 1893) were born in Berlin.

Fonts

scientific:

  • Contributions to the knowledge of molybdenum and tungsten. Inaugurial dissertation at the University of Munich. Keller, Giessen 1883.
  • Investigations on Titan. Dr. v. M. Du Mont-Schauberg, Strasbourg 1886. ( online )

literary:

  • 1812. Drama in five acts. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1897. ( digitized version )
  • Michel-Angelo. Historical genre picture in one elevator. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1898.
  • Prince of Bismarck. A memorial speech on his death. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1898.
  • Mohammed. Dramatic poem in five acts. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1898.
  • The king of Rome. Dramatic poem in five acts. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1900.
  • Becoming and essence of historical drama. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1901. ( digitized version )
  • Frederick the Great. Historical drama in four acts with an aftermath as a prelude. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1902.
  • The slap. Historical drama. 1903.
  • The open window. Novel. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1902

philosophical:

  • Attempt a theory of judgment and concept. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1906. ( digitized version )
  • Preliminary questions of natural philosophy. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1907.
  • Conformism. A philosophy of normative values. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1910.
  • The feeling and the pedagogy. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1914.
  • The inferiority of negation. Veit & Co., Leipzig 1914.
  • Ethics. Göschen, Berlin and Leipzig 1916.
  • Organization. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1917.
  • Religion philosophy . Göschen, Berlin a. Leipzig 1916, 1922.

literature

  • Johann Christian Poggendorf (Ed.): Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences (vol. 4, 1904) and biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, chemistry, crystallography and related fields of knowledge (vol. 6, 1938 ).
  • Franz Neubert (ed.): German contemporary lexicon . Schulze, Leipzig 1905.
  • Rudolf Eisler (Ed.): Philosopher Lexicon. Lives, works and teachings of the thinkers . Berlin 1912.
  • Max Geissler: Guide through the German literature of the 20th century . A. Duncker, Berlin 1913.
  • German Biographical Yearbook (DBJ), transition volume 2, 1917/20, list of deaths 1918.
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Saur, Munich and Leipzig 1936.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ by King Maximilian of Bavaria on August 11, 1854 "with the renewal and confirmation of the old nobility held by his forefathers, as a sign of his benevolence and in recognition of his services to himself and his legitimate offspring in the hereditary baron"
  2. ↑ married 1844; had a fatal accident on July 22, 1873 at the train station in Weesen , Switzerland
  3. ^ Adalbert Fr. Marx
  4. ↑ Pfordten, Kurt Freiherr von der in German Biography retrieved on 25 August 2017th
  5. ↑ Pfordten, Hermann Freiherr von der in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on August 25, 2017.
  6. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1876/77
  7. ↑ Apartment: Franz-Josef-Str. 38
personal data
SURNAME Pfordten, Otto von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfordten, Otto Freiherr von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, philosopher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1918
Place of death Brussels