Piet Tommissen
Piet Tommissen (* 20th March 1925 in Lanklaar , Limburg , Belgium; † 21st August 2011 in Uccle , Belgium) was a Belgian economics teacher and sociologist , the extensive mainly because of its studies and research on the German constitutional lawyer and philosopher Carl Schmitt became known .
Life
After attending school, Tommissen studied economics and sociology at the Brussels School of Economics and the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerp . After completing his studies, he worked as an authorized signatory at an industrial company .
The first result of his research on the German constitutional law teacher and philosopher Carl Schmitt, with whom he had been in contact since 1952, was the publication of an attempt at a Carl Schmitt bibliography (1953).
In 1971 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Vilfredo Pareto with the title De wet van Pareto: De economische epistemologie van Vilfredo Pareto . He then took on a professorship at the Brussels Commercial College in 1972 and taught there until his retirement in 1990.
Tommissen's book Over en in zake Carl Schmitt , published in Flemish in 1975 , was published in German with changed content in 1997 by Karolinger Verlag under the title In Matters Carl Schmitt .
He was the founder and editor of the Schmittiana series: Contributions to the life and work of Carl Schmitt , which contained articles by and about Schmitt. Volumes 1, 2 and 3 appeared in 1988, 1990 and 1991 as double issues 71/72, 79/80 and 84/85 of the Eclectica series of the Brussels Economische Hogeschool Sint-Aloysius . Later editions were published by Duncker & Humblot and VCH -verlagsgesellschaft, the eighth and final episode in 2003. Since 2011, Duncker & Humblot has published a new episode of the Schmittiana , published by the Carl Schmitt Society.
Another research focus of Tommissen was the life and work of the French political scientist and sociologist Julien Freund , who decisively shaped the French reception of Schmitt.
more publishments
- Carl Schmitt - correspondence with one of his students , co-editors Armin Mohler and Irmgard Huhn, Akademie Verlag , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002773-8 .
- In the matter of Carl Schmitt , Karolinger, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85418-079-9 .
- Letters to Carl Schmitt . Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-428-09200-7 .
- Gehlen - Pareto - Schmitt. In: Helmut Klages and Helmut Quaritsch (eds.): On the importance of the humanities, Arnold Gehlens Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-07454-8 , pp. 171–197.
Web links
- Literature by and about Piet Tommissen in the catalog of the German National Library
- NN: Died: Piet Tommissen is dead . In: Börsenblatt , August 25, 2011
- Günter Maschke : Virtue of Perseverance: On the 75th birthday of Piet Tommissen In: Junge Freiheit , March 17, 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data from inMemoriam.be
- ^ Kai Köhler: Useless apologies: Piet Tommissen's contributions to the life and work of Carl Schmitt's book review Schmittiana VII, in: literaturkritik.de, December 2002
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tommissen, Piet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian sociologist, economist and Carl Schmitt researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lanklaar , Limburg Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 2011 |
| Place of death | Ukkel , Belgium |