Rudolf Maria Holzapfel

Rudolf Maria Holzapfel (born April 26, 1874 in Krakow , then part of Galicia as part of the Danube Monarchy; † February 8, 1930 in Muri near Bern ) was an Austrian psychologist and philosopher.

Rudolf Maria Holzapfel

Life

Holzapfel grew up in Krakow as the son of a doctor and free thinker of Jewish descent . After his untimely death, he and relatives had to emigrate to Cape Town . After working for a long time as a typesetter in London , he traveled to Zurich , where he studied with Richard Avenarius until his death in 1896.

From 1898 to 1901 he wrote the first version of his major work Panideal in Cherson , southern Russia . Then he continued his studies in Bern , where he received his doctorate in 1903 under Ludwig Stein (1859–1930) . In the same year he married the Viennese sculptor Bettina Gomperz . After traveling to France and Italy, the family lived in Lower Austria between 1908 and 1913 . After the outbreak of World War I she finally moved to Switzerland . His two daughters are called Myrrha Holzapfel (* 1905) and Monika Holzapfel (1907–1995).

In his memory, the international pan-idealist association built a burial chapel in the Mettlenhölzli grove in Muri near Bern, based on the plans of his widow Bettina Holzapfel-Gomperz .

With his work he tried to present a comprehensive worldview, the so-called "panidealism". In his writings, Holzapfel emphasizes the way people are shaped by their social environment, their “community around them”, their involvement in “inter-individual traffic”.

Works

• Pan ideal. Psychology of Social Emotions . With a foreword by Ernst Mach . Barth, Leipzig 1901
  • "New, very changed and expanded edition" as: Panideal. The soul life and its social reorganization . 2 volumes, Diederichs, Jena 1923
• Nature and methods of social psychology . Dissertation Bern 1903
• World experience. Religious life and its redesign . 2 volumes, Diederichs, Jena 1928
  • New edition: major works . 2 volumes: Panideal and world experience . Newly published by the Society for a Total Culture. Sauerländer, Aarau 1983
• Holy eternity. Seal . DVA, Stuttgart 1932
• Legacy writings. On the psychology of social intercourse - of cult - of creation and knowledge . Niehans, Zurich 1939

literature

• Crab apple Rudolf Maria. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 407 f. (Direct links on p. 407 , p. 408 ).
• Hans Zbinden :  Holzapfel, Rudolf Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 569 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Vladimir Astrow: Rudolf Maria Holzapfel - the creator of the Panideal. A new life . With a foreword by Romain Rolland . Diederichs, Jena 1928
• Rudolf Maria Holzapfel in memory . Schwabe, Basel 1930
• Adalbert Bruno Ekowski: The poet philosopher Rudolf Maria Holzapfel. His world of thought and his personality. A philosophical study (Diss. Breslau 1935). Heim-Verlag Adolf Dreßler, Radolfzell 1935
• Monika Meyer-Holzapfel : Man - Earth - Cosmos. Life and work of Rudolf Maria Holzapfel . Society for a total culture, Bern 1981
• Hugo Debrunner : Rudolf Maria Holzapfel , Zürcher Illustrierte, Vol. 4, Issue 47, 1928, p. 8
• Hugo Debrunner: Rudolf Maria Holzapfel, the herald of the Panideal , Die Berner Woche in words and pictures, Vol. 20, Issue 14, 1930, p. 187

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Maria Holzapfel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the "Society for a Total Culture"
• Rudolf Maria Holzapfel In: Swissbib