Paul Honigsheim
Paul Honigsheim (born March 28, 1885 in Düsseldorf , † January 22, 1963 in East Lansing , Michigan, USA) was a German social scientist . He is considered a co-founder of German sociology .
Life
Honigsheim was born in Düsseldorf in 1885 and was the son of a bank director. His mother was French. Honigsheim studied history and sociology, law, political science and philosophy in Bonn, Berlin and Heidelberg and was a student and friend of Max Weber . With him he received his doctorate in 1914 with the topic: "The state and social teachings of the French Jansenists in the 17th century". From 1919 he worked at the Institute for Sociology in Cologne, where he taught philosophy , sociology and social education from 1927 as a professor . Konrad Adenauer had entrusted him full-time management of the Cologne Adult Education Center in 1920 .
In 1933 he emigrated to France because he was considered hostile to the regime. The Frankfurt Institute for Social Research had persecution in Paris set up a branch, the Center de Documentation at the Ecole Normale Supérieure , the Honigsheim headed. Between 1936 and 1938 he taught at the National University of Panama and in 1938 he accepted a professorship in the USA , where he moved to East Lansing. Until 1950 he taught as a professor of sociology and anthropology at Michigan State University .
Research approach
Honigsheim worked historically and comparatively in his special disciplines of music sociology and religious sociology in particular (back to cultures without writing), using ideal types as auxiliary constructions , following on from Max Weber . He viewed the sociology of music and the sociology of religion as individual disciplines free of value judgments.
At the University of Konstanz , social science archive in the communication, information and media center KIM, there are hectographed manuscripts of several lecture notes from his time in Michigan as well as lectures that he wrote for the RIAS after 1945 . A directory for this is available.
In District Archives Viersen are in inventory Hanna Meuter well over 50 archival to Honigsheim, until his death. Mostly these are his works, which he sent her because the two were friends.
literature
- Martha Friedenthal-Haase: From the Rhineland to Michigan. The sociologist and pedagogue Paul Honigsheim (1885 - 1963), migrant and mediator between two cultures, Dept. of Sociology, Mich. State Univ., East Lansing, Mich., 1988
- Joseph Maier : Honigsheim, Paul. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2. rework. Aufl. Enke, Stuttgart 1980 ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 186
- Alfons Silbermann, Paul Röhrig (ed.): Culture, popular education and society. Paul Honigsheim to commemorate his 100th birthday; Contributions to the work, selected texts and a directory of the writings by Paul Honigsheim, Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8204-9619-X .
- Karl Gustav Specht : Honigsheim, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 600 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Honigsheim in the catalog of the German National Library
notes
- ↑ Finding aid , searchable online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Honigsheim, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1963 |
| Place of death | East Lansing |