Paul Sakmann

Paul Sakmann (born October 25, 1864 in Stuttgart ; † November 23, 1936 there ) was a German theologian and politician . He was a member of the Württemberg state parliament (1919–1920)

Life

Born as the son of a teacher and head of an institution for the blind, Sakmann studied philosophy and Protestant theology in Tübingen after attending grammar school in Stuttgart and the Protestant seminars in Schöntal and Urach . During his studies in 1883 he became a member of the Normannia Tübingen Association . In 1889 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1887 he was vicar in Plochingen until 1888 , then city vicar in Stuttgart until 1890. In 1891 he passed his second theological examination , attended the teachers' seminar in Esslingen and studied mathematics , English and French in Tübingen from 1891 to 1895 . In 1896 he became head teacher at the school in Ravensburg , then to 1900 head teacher at the Gymnasium in Ulm before as to 1927 Professor and teacher of modern languages at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart taught. In the First World War he took part as a war volunteer from 1914 to 1916 . In 1927 he retired and completed his habilitation at the TH Stuttgart and held his inaugural lecture in 1928 as an honorary professor . He was also a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Stuttgart until 1933 and a teacher at a grammar school in Stuttgart from 1931 to 1933.

From 1919 to 1921 Sakmann was a member of the SPD , for which he was a member of the Württemberg state parliament in 1919 and 1920 . In 1919 he was a member of the Evangelical Regional Church Assembly. He was chairman of the Württemberg Association for Newer Languages.

Publications (selection)

• Bernard de Mandeville and the bee fable controversy. An episode in the history of the English Enlightenment. Freiburg i. B., Leipzig, Tübingen 1897.
• An unprinted Voltaire correspondence. Stuttgart 1899.
• Voltaire's mindset and world of thought. Stuttgart 1910.
• Intellectualism and its opponents. Hamburg 1922.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Berlin 1913. 2nd edition 1923.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's spirit world based on the works and diaries. Habilitation at the TH Stuttgart 1927.
• Philosophical school of thought for teaching at higher educational establishments. Leipzig 1929. 2nd edition 1930.

Honors

1929: Literature Prize of the Württemberg Goethebund for his habilitation thesis

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 220-221.