Rudolf Haym

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Rudolf Haym, around 1847
Rudolf Haym, around 1890

Rudolf Haym (born October 5, 1821 in Grünberg , † August 27, 1901 in St. Anton am Arlberg ) was a philosopher and publicist.

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From 1839 to 1843 Haym studied Protestant theology, philosophy and classical philology in Halle and Berlin. In Halle he became a member of the old Halle fraternity in 1839 . In 1843 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate , the Habilitation was refused by the Prussian government in 1845.

Rudolf Haym was an MP for Eisleben in the Frankfurt National Assembly , a participant in the Gotha post-parliament and from 1866 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . He was one of Bismarck's supporters .

From 1868 Haym was a full professor of German literature at the University of Halle . In 1873/74 he became rector of the Halle Alma Mater .

Haym was one of the most important literary scholars of his time. His biography of Schopenhauer (1864) was highly controversial . The main works are Hegel and his time (1857), The romantic school (1870) and an extensive biography of Herder ( Herder. Illustrated after his life and works , 2 volumes, 1880/1885 - according to Hans Georg Gadamer, “a masterpiece of biographical research "). They have all appeared in reprints and are still considered standard works today.

In 1900 he was accepted as a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • Speeches and speakers of the first Prussian united state parliament , 1847
  • On the characteristics of New Prussian politics in 1854
  • The German National Assembly , 3 volumes, 1848–1850
  • Hegel and his time , 1857
  • Arthur Schopenhauer , biography, 1864
  • The Romantic School , 1870
  • Herder depicted after his life and works , Berlin [1877 /] 1880/1885
    • Volume 1, half 1. 2, Berlin: Gaertner, 1877 and 1880 [the first volume was published in full in 1880]
    • Volume 2, Berlin: Gaertner, 1885
    • Herder . Edited and with an introduction by Wolfgang Harich , Berlin: Aufbau-Verl., 1954
    • Herder . Edited by Wolfgang Harich. Special edition, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1954 [without the introduction]
    • Herder . Berlin: Aufbau-Verl., 1958 [2. Edition]
  • The life of Max Duncker , 1891
  • Out of my life . Memories. From the estate, ed. With 2 portraits, Berlin: R. Gaertner, 1902
  • Collected Essays , 1903
  • Selected correspondence . Edited by Hans Rosenberg, 1930
  • On German philosophy and literature. In: Classics of Criticism, Selected Texts, Ed. Ernst Howald, 1963

literature

  • Wilhelm Dilthey : Letters to Rudolf Haym 1861 - 1873 . Communicated by Erich Less, Berlin: Verl. D. Akad. D. Wiss., 1936
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 264-265.
  • Wolfgang Harich : Rudolf Haym, his political and philosophical development. In: Sinn und Form 6 (1954), 482-527
  • Wolfgang Harich: Rudolf Haym and his Herder book: Contributions to the critical appropriation of the literary heritage. Aufbau-Verlag, 1955
  • Hildegard Herricht: Rudolf Haym 1821-1901: Short biography and bibliographical overview. 1992
  • Ernst Howald:  Haym, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 152 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Giancarlo Magnano San Lio: Biografia, politica e Kulturgeschichte in Rudolf Haym , Napoli: Liguori, 2009
  • Alois Riehl : Rudolf Haym . Speech in his memory in the auditorium of the Univ. Halle-Wittenberg on December 14, 1901, 1902
  • Hans Rosenberg : Rudolf Haym and the beginnings of classical liberalism. (Supplement to the historical journal. 31) Munich. Oldenburg 1933.
  • Wilhelm Scherer : Letters and documents from the years 1853 to 1886. Ed. By Hans Müller u. a. (Marbacher Wissenschaftsgeschichte 5), Göttingen: Wallstein Vlg. 2005 (contains, among other things, correspondence with Haym)
  • Ottomar Wichmann : Rudolf Haym . In: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder , Volume 2, 19th Century Life Pictures, Magdeburg 1927, pp. 307–312.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Haym  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Rudolf Haym  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kaupp: Burschenschafter in der Paulskirche , brochure of the Society for Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung, 1999
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Rudolf Haym. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Haym, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Philosopher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünberg
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1901
Place of death St. Anton am Arlberg