Raymond Klibansky

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Raymond Klibansky , CC ( Latinized Raymundus Klibansky ; born October 15, 1905 in Paris , † August 5, 2005 in Montréal ) was a European-Canadian philosopher . Klibansky became known for his editions and research on Meister Eckhart and Nikolaus von Kues .

Together with Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl , he published the standard work Saturn and Melancholie in 1964 . Until his death, Klibansky Frothingham was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University in Montréal .

Life

Raymond Klibansky was born in Paris in 1905 in the family of Rosa Scheidt and Hermann Klibansky, a German, Jewish-Orthodox wine merchant. After the outbreak of World War I, the family moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he also went to school. He also attended the Odenwald School in Ober-Hambach . He studied philosophy and philology at the Universities of Kiel (especially with Ferdinand Tönnies ), Hamburg and Heidelberg with Ernst Cassirer and Karl Jaspers . He kept in close contact with the art historian Aby Warburg and the Romanist Ernst Robert Curtius .

Klibansky's first publication, the Edition des liber de sapiente by the French philosopher Carolus Bovillus , appeared in 1927 as an appendix to Ernst Cassirer's study Individual and Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy . In 1929 the doctorate followed, in 1931 the habilitation at the University of Heidelberg, then a private lecturer. Klibansky, who in 1927 discovered Nicolaus Cusanus 'medieval commentary on Proclus' writing on Plato's dialogue Parmenides in the library in Bernkastel-Kues , was able to publish the writings of Cusanus with his Heidelberg teacher Ernst Hoffmann .

In April 1933 he was dismissed from university on racial grounds and three months later, in July 1933, he emigrated to London . Professorships in Oxford and Montréal followed . At McGill University in Montréal, Klibansky took over the John Frothingham Chair of Logic and Metaphysics in 1946 .

Klibansky created an internationally acclaimed reputation for himself with his scholarly debates on the Christian philosopher Nikolaus von Kues and the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart. In collaboration with Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl , he worked up the history of the concept of melancholy from antiquity to the Renaissance. Klibansky is the author of numerous publications on the work of Plato and the Platonic tradition in the Middle Ages. He received great recognition because he anchored the philosophy in the UN educational organization UNESCO.

In addition to his professorship at McGill, Raymond Klibansky was visiting professor all over the world, including in Tehran and Tokyo in the 1970s. From 1957 Klibansky was also a full professor out of service at the Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University. In 1970 he retired and was made an honorary senator of the university in 1986. In 1987, Klibansky was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1990 he received the Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal for his scientific achievements. In 1993 he received the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Since 1965 he was a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and since 1991 of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft .

Klibansky lived in Montréal and Oxford. Two months before his 100th birthday, he died in Montréal in August 2005.

Works

  • A Proklos find and its significance , Heidelberg 1929 (session reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class, vol. 19)
  • The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition during the Middle Ages , London 1939
  • with Erwin Panofsky , Fritz Saxl : Saturn and Melancholie - Studies on the History of Natural Philosophy and Medicine, Religion and Art , Suhrkamp Taschenbuchwissenschaft, 1992
  • Memories of a century. Conversations with Georges Leroux . 2001

literature

  • Martin Meyer: The dark light of melancholy. On the work of Klibansky, Panofsky and Saxl . NZZ , June 22, 1990.
  • with Patrick Conley: "Pushing the boundaries of academic life." A conversation about Ernst Cassirer and the Warburg Library. Merkur , 50, H. 3, March 1996, pp. 274-277
  • Hans Gerhard Senger: Raymond Klibansky 1905-2005. Sketch of a philosophical biography , in: Communications and research contributions of the Cusanus Society, 30, 2005
  • Regina Weber: Raymond Klibansky (1905–2005) , in: John M. Spalek , Konrad Feilchenfeldt , Sandra H. Hawrylchak (eds.): German-language exile literature since 1933. Volume 3: USA. Supplement 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-11-024056-6 pp. 93-124

Movies

  • Raymond Klibansky. De la philosophy à la vie . Director: Anne-Marie Tougas, Canada 2002
  • From the living spirit to the spirit of modernity. A history of the University of Heidelberg . Directed by Mario Damolin and Bernhard Kilian, 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raymond Klibansky: Memories of a Century
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Raymond Klibansky. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The autobiography, written as a conversation with a student, is something like "a small sum of the twentieth century". Kurt Flasch , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 13, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Klibansky, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klibansky, Raymundus (Latinized)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION European-Canadian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2005
Place of death Montréal