Richard Salinger

Richard Salinger (born March 1, 1859 in Berlin ; † July 28, 1926 there ) was a German journalist and publisher .

Life

Salinger was - after schooling in Berlin (Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster) and studying philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin - initially active in the scientific field. Georg Simmel was one of the opponents in his doctoral disputation on June 24, 1881 ; Salinger also had a friendly relationship with Paul Radestock. The dissertation was about Spinoza. Salinger then worked for several years in the statistical office of the city of Berlin and in the international statistical office in Rome, but also spent a few years as a private scholar. In 1906 he became editor of the Vossische Zeitung in Berlin. Until his death in 1926 he was in charge of their features section - at times together with Paul Fechter . In an obituary in the Vossische Zeitung (see below) for Salinger it says: “In the past 20 years there has hardly been a number that did not contain some of his contributions.” He did not start a family, rather “he lived between his books, the meant his world ”(obituary).

From 1891 to 1899 Salinger ran the “Philosophisch-Historisches Verlag Dr. R. Salinger ”, who mainly published text editions of philosophical classics ( Philosophical Library ).

Works

• Spinoza's doctrine of self-preservation , Berlin, Univ., Diss., 1881.
• World pain in poetry , Berlin 1903 (Vossische Zeitung: Sunday supplement).
• Uhland and the Order Pour le Mérite. A memory on the 50th anniversary of the death of the poet , in: Vossische Zeitung. Sunday supplement 1912, pp. 353–355 (No. 45/575 of November 10).
• The citizen of two worlds. For the 150th birthday of Alexander v. Humboldts , in: Monthly Issues of the Comenius Society for Culture and Spiritual Life 28 (= New Series 11) (1919), pp. 33–42.
• Spinoza's appointment to Heidelberg. A contribution to the history of freedom of thought and belief , in: The shield. Journal of the Reich Association of Jewish Front-Line Soldiers, EV, 4th year, no. 22, September 3, 1925.

literature

• Vossische Zeitung (Berlin). No. 180 of July 29, 1926. Supplement "Das Unterhaltungsblatt" No. 175, p. 2 (obituary).
• Paul Fechter : People and Times. Encounters from 5 decades, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1948
• Rainer A. Bast : The Philosophical Library. History and bibliography of a series of philosophical texts since 1868, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1991, 52–58. 148-149.
• Georg Simmel: Letters 1880-1911. Edited by Klaus Christian Köhnke (complete edition. Vol. 22), Frankfurt am Main 2005.