Robert Schinzinger

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Robert Karl Edmund Schinzinger (born February 8, 1898 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † October 9, 1988 in Yokohama , Japan ) was a Japanese-German philosopher .

Schinzinger studied philosophy in Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1922 under Ernst Cassirer on the Arnauld - Malebranche controversy. In 1923 he moved to Japan as a German teacher. Since 1929 he has contributed to the series of publications of the Japanese-German Cultural Institute founded in Tokyo the previous year. In 1942, succeeding Walter Donat , he taught German language and literature at the University of Tokyo . Among his students was the writer Yukio Mishima . From 1946 to 1974 Schinzinger held a professorship at Gakushūin University in Tokyo. For several decades he was a leading member of the German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia . During National Socialism and the axis politics between Berlin and Tokyo, Schinzinger held back with ideological statements and concentrated on philosophical technical problems. He made a significant contribution to freeing the teaching of German language and culture in Japan from the National Socialist influence of Donat. His dictionary of the German and Japanese languages (several editions since 1972) has long been the standard work. His book Japanese Thought (1983) was also influential.

Fonts (selection)

  • Basic philosophical questions at Malebranche and Arnauld. Hamburg 1922.
  • The position of philosophy in contemporary German intellectual life. Truth and Error in the Theory of Marxism. Tokyo 1929.
  • Meaning and being. Study on the problem of ontology. Tokyo 1933.
  • Contributions to German intellectual history. Tokyo 1934.
  • Japanese philosophy. Tokyo 1942.
  • Dictionary of the German and Japanese languages. Tokyo 1972 etc.
  • The history of the OAG 1873–1980. Tokyo 1982 (together with Carl von Weegmann ).
  • Japanese thinking. The ideological background of today's Japan. Berlin 1983.
  • The image of man in Japanese tradition and pre-war philosophy. in: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Vogler (editor): Neue Anthropologie, Volume 6 Philosophical Anthropology, Part One , German Scientific Series, Stuttgart and Munich 1974, ISBN 3423040742 , pages 182–205

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personal data
SURNAME Schinzinger, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schinzinger, Robert Karl Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japan-german philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1988
Place of death Yokohama , Japan