Siegfried Behn

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Siegfried Behn (born June 3, 1884 in Hamburg ; † November 27, 1970 in Bonn- Bad Godesberg ) was a German philosopher and psychologist and worked as a lecturer and professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn and at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , Bonn.

Life

Behn attended grammar schools in Hamburg and Worms from 1897 to 1903, and from 1903 to 1908 he studied philosophy, psychology and other subjects in Munich and Heidelberg, which he completed with a doctorate in 1908. From 1908 to 1913 he undertook further studies and in 1913 received the license to teach (venia legendi) for philosophy and psychology in Bonn.

From 1913–1922 he was private lecturer for philosophy in Bonn, from 1922 to 1933 associate professor for philosophy and at times at the same time lecturer, then professor for philosophy at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn, from 1931 full professor for philosophy with special consideration of experimental pedagogy at the University of Bonn, where he held the post of full professor of philosophy and psychology from 1937 to 1949. He retired on October 18, 1949.

Act

Aspects of his work can be mentioned:

  • In his experimental investigations into the rhythm of literary texts, he came across a connection early on, which was later theoretically derived and verified in quantitative linguistics as the Menzerath-Altmann law . He found that lines with more syllables are spoken comparatively shorter than lines with fewer syllables, so that the speaking time is balanced between lines of different lengths.
  • His investigations into five levels of emphasis in poems are also of interest for quantitative linguistics, as they can be interpreted as the expression of a law of language which, among other things, controls word lengths ( law of the distribution of word lengths ) in texts.
  • In May 1949 Behn took over the leadership of the news commission, which had to investigate the behavior of the university members during the time of National Socialism .

Fonts

  • The German rhythm and its own law. An experimental study. Strasbourg: Trübner 1912
  • Rhythm and expression in German artificial language. Bonn: Verlag von Friedrich Cohn 1921
  • Critique of Pedagogical Knowledge. Bonn: F. Cohen 1923
  • The Truth in the Changing Worldview: A Critical History of Metaphysical Philosophy. Berlin: F. Dümmlers Verl. 1924
  • Romantic or classical logic? Comparative dialectics of the antinom. Contradiction. Munster i. W .: Aschendorffsche Verlh. 1925
  • To be and should: A metaphysical foundation of ethics. Berlin: F. Dümmlers Verl. 1927; Bonn: Book Community 1931
  • Educational Ideals: The "Critique" of Educational Knowledge. Bonn: F. Cohen 1927
  • General history of pedagogy in a representation that develops problems. Paderborn: F. Schöningh Volume 1 1928; Volume 2 1929
  • Philosophy of values ​​as a basic science of educational target theory. Munich: Verlag J. Kösel & F. Pustet 1930
  • Introduction to metaphysics. Freiburg: Herder 1933
  • The ethos of the present. Bonn: Hanstein 1933/34
  • The Eternal Jew: A Legend. Kempen-Niederrhein: Thomas-Verlag 1947
  • Ethics: A revision course. Bonn: Hanstein 1948
  • Critique of Knowledge. Bonn: Hanstein 1949
  • General history of pedagogy in a representation that develops problems. Darmstadt: Scientific. Book company; Paderborn: Schöningh, 1961
  • Beauty and magic. Ratingen: Henn 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Behn, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1970
Place of death Bonn - Bad Godesberg