Richard Müller-Freienfels

Richard Müller-Freienfels (born August 7, 1882 in Bad Ems , † December 12, 1949 in Weilburg ) was a German philosopher and psychologist .

Life

The son of a grammar school teacher received his doctorate in 1904 at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation in the history of literature and in 1906 passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools. From 1909 to 1923 he worked as a senior teacher in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , then until 1930 he was a teacher at the municipal reform school in Grunewald. In addition, from 1921 to 1930 he taught philosophy, psychology and education at the State Art School and at the Academy for Church and School Music. From 1930 to 1932 he was professor for psychological education at the Pedagogical Academy in Stettin .

Müller-Freienfels joined the NSDAP in 1933 . Since 1933 he had a teaching position for philosophy and education at the Berlin commercial college . In 1938 he was dismissed for “Jewish infiltration” and in 1939 he retired early. From 1938 to 1942 he edited Max Dessoir's magazine for aesthetics and general art history. After the Second World War , he was professor of psychology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin from 1946 to 1948 .

Fonts (selection)

• Poetics , Teubner, Leipzig, 1914/1921.
• Philosophy of Individuality , Felix Meiner Verlag, Leipzig 1921. 272 ​​pp.
• The soul of everyday life. A psychology for everyone , Wegweiser-Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 1925.
• Basics of a life psychology. JA Barth, Leipzig 1924–1925.
• Diary of a psychologist , Leipzig: Seemann 1931.
• Memory and mental training. Bad Homburg vd H. 1933.
• Knowledge of Human Beings and Treatment of People: A Practical Psychology for Everyone. 1940.
• Man and the universe . Philosophical Answers to Cosmic Questions. People's Association of Book Friends. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin (1948). Selection series. 260 pp.
• Goethe: man and work in modern lighting . People's Association of Book Friends. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin (1949). Selection series. 418 pp.

literature

• Helmut E. Lück :  Müller-Freienfels, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 495 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Schernus: Procedures of historical science research. Exemplary studies on philosophy, literary studies and narratology. Dissertation, Hamburg 2005, p. 77 ( Online , PDF 2.2 MB).
• Christian Tilitzki: The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Part 1, Akademie Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-05-003647-2 , p. 434.

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Müller-Freienfels in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Richard Müller-Freienfels  in the German Digital Library