Paul Hensel (philosopher)

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Paul Hensel

Paul Hugo Wilhelm Hensel (born May 17, 1860 in Groß-Barthen near Königsberg i.Pr (East Prussia); † November 11, 1930 in Erlangen ) was a German philosopher , son of the landowner and entrepreneur Sebastian Hensel , brother of the mathematician Kurt Hensel and the writer Lili (Elisabeth) du Bois-Reymond , b. Hensel. He was a grandson of the composer Fanny Hensel and the painter Wilhelm Hensel and a descendant of the entrepreneur and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn .

Live and act

Paul Hensel received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1885 after studying philosophy, history and classical philology. In 1888 he completed his habilitation with Wilhelm Windelband in Strasbourg . In 1895 he was appointed associate professor in Strasbourg. From 1898 he was an associate professor in Heidelberg . In 1902 he was appointed full professor for systematic philosophy in Erlangen , where he taught until 1928.

Hensel was friends with Max Weber , with whom he traveled in 1904 to the scholars' congress on the occasion of the world exhibition in St. Louis . In 1911 he traveled again to the United States and attended Boston and Harvard University . In 1915 he was the doctoral supervisor of Hans Reichenbach , who did his doctorate with him with a thesis on probability theory .

In addition to academic teaching, Hensel also devoted himself to adult and worker education. He gave successful lecture series in Nuremberg and Fürth . In 1922 he was a co-founder of the Erlangen-Nürnberg-Fürth local branch of the Kant Society , which he had headed since 1925. In Erlangen, Hensel was called "Socrates of Erlangen".

Paul Hensel married Käthe Rosenhayn (1861–1910) for the first time in 1896. The marriage was the result of their son Bruno Hensel (1899–1945). In 1917 Paul Hensel and Elisabeth Nelson, b. Schemmann (1884-1954). Her first marriage was from 1907 to 1912 with the philosopher Leonard Nelson . Paul Hensel and Leonard Nelson both descended from the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Elisabeth Nelson brought her son Gerhard Nelson (1909–1944) into her new marriage. With Paul Hensel she had two more daughters: the pianist and music teacher Fanny Kistner-Hensel (1918–2006) and the historian Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel (1923–2012).

Fonts

Bookplate Paul Hensel
  • The position of the Reich Chancellor according to the constitutional law of the German Reich. Munich 1882.
  • About the relationship between the pure ego in Fichte and the unity of apperception in Kant. Freiburg 1885.
  • Ethical knowledge and ethical action. 1889.
  • Thomas Carlyle . 3. Edition. Frommanns, Stuttgart 1901. 3rd through. 1922 (series classics of philosophy. 11).
  • Main problems of ethics. Nine lectures. Teubner, Leipzig 1903.
  • Sebastian Hensel. A picture of life from Germany's apprenticeship years. 2nd Edition. Behr, Berlin 1904.
  • The Polish danger for the Masurian population. Ostmarken, Berlin 1911.
  • Rousseau Teubner, Leipzig 1907, 1912. 3rd through. Edition: 1919 (series From Nature and Spiritual World. 180).
  • Small writings and lectures by Ernst Hoffmann. Henning, Greiz 1920 (essays from the years 1892 to 1919, e.g. Das Schauerliche in ETA Hoffmann , Ludwig Feuerbach , What can German liberalism learn from Fichte ? Not to be confused with the 1930 edition)
  • Small papers and lectures. For the author's 70th birthday. Edited by Ernst Hoffmann, Heinrich Rickert. Mohr, Tübingen 1930.
  • Foreword to: Gerbrand Dekker: The return to myth. Schelling's last change. Oldenbourg, Munich 1930.
  • Philosophy of religion. From the estate, ed. by Friedrich Sauer. With appendix What does Paul Hensel's philosophy of religion mean? by Joseph Münzhuber. V&R, Göttingen 1934.

literature

  • Fritz Medicus:  Paul Hensel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 561 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Funeral service for Professor Dr. Paul Hensel November 11, 1930.
  • Elisabeth Hensel: Paul Hensel. His life in his letters. Societäts, Frankfurt 1937. Also: Erlangen 1938. Again: Wolfenbütteler Verlagsanstalt, 1947.
  • Hermann Glockner: Paul Hensel, the Socrates of Erlangen. (Series of Academic Lectures and Treatises. 36). Bouvier, Bonn 1972.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Weber, Horst Baier , M. Rainer Lepsius , Wolfgang J. Mommsen : Complete edition . Dept. 2, Volume 6, Letters, Letters 1909–1910. Mohr, Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3161463080 . P. 792
  2. ^ Max Weber Complete Edition, Mohr Siebeck, ISBN 3161469259 . P. 1010.
  3. ^ Christian Thiel : Hensel, Paul . In: Christoph Friederich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 , p. 359 ( complete edition online ).
  4. ↑ Ilse Fischer: Leonard Nelson. The beginnings of political work. Archive of the Social Democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (AdsD), accessed on November 26, 2010 (footnote 8).
  5. ↑ Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel : In memory of a great pianist and educator from our hometown . Short résumé of Fanny Kistner, b. Hensel. In: ERSA, ERlanger Städtische Altenhilfe (Ed.): Herbst-Zeitlose . Erlangen senior newspaper. No. 4/2006 . Erlangen 2006, p. 19 ( PDF 2.8 MB [accessed November 26, 2010]).
  6. ^ Descendant of one of the most important Berlin families . In: BZ . December 31, 2012 ( bz-berlin.de [accessed October 9, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hensel, Paul Hugo Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, social scientist and economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Barthen near Königsberg i.Pr (East Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1930
Place of death gain