Robert Saitschick

Robert M. Saitschick (also Saitschik , Russian Рувим Маркович Зайчик ; born April 24, 1868 in Mstislavl , Russian Empire , today Belarus ; † January 29, 1965 in Horgen ) was a Russian-Swiss literary historian and philosopher.

Life

He attended the Russian high school in his hometown, but as a student came into conflict with government organs and was therefore to be exiled to Siberia. With the help of friends, the family managed to escape to Vienna , where Saitschick studied literature. He received his doctorate from the University of Bern and became a private lecturer in 1889. After a year he gave up this activity and lived for two years as a freelance writer in Berlin , Geneva and Paris . In 1894 he became a professor of comparative literary history at the Neuchâtel Academy . From 1895 to 1914 he taught at the optional subject department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . In 1899 he was naturalized in Zurich . From 1914 to 1925 he was a professor at the University of Cologne . From 1925 he lived again in Switzerland as a freelance writer.

Honors

• 1958: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

• Contributions to the history of the legal position of the Jews, especially in the area of ​​today's Austria-Hungary, from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. Bern 1890 (dissertation)
• Dostoevsky and Tolstoy , 1892
• Man and his goal , 1914
• Of the inner distress of our age. A preview of Faust's future path , 1917
• The Spiritual Crisis of European Humanity , 1924
• Destiny and Redemption , 1927
• Creator of the highest life values , 1945
• The state and what is more than it , 1946
• Bismarck and the fate of the German people. On the psychology and history of the German question , Munich 1949
• The rise and fall of Bolshevism , 1952

literature

• Saitschick, Robert. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 18: Phil – Samu. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22698-4 , pp. 445-454.

Web links

• Publications by and about Robert Saitschick in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Robert Saitschick's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Carsten Goehrke: Saitschick, Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Robert Saitschick in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

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