Stanislaus von Dunin-Borkowski

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Zbigniew Stanislaus Martin Count Dunin-Borkowski SJ (born May 11, 1864 in Winniczki near Lemberg; † May 1, 1934 in Munich ) was an Austrian pedagogue, church, religion and philosophy historian, who was primarily known for his fundamental work on Benedictus de Spinoza is known.

life and work

Dunin-Borkowski's family was a family of Austrian counts originally of Polish origin. He attended school in Kremsmünster and then the Theresianum in Vienna , then from 1880 the Jesuit college Stella Matutina in Feldkirch . In 1883 he entered the Society of Jesus in the Dutch Jesuit novitiate Exaten near Roermond . After graduating from Philosophicum in 1889 (which is said to have failed at first) he studied theology in Ditton-Hall, Shropshire (England) and Valkenburg until 1893 and was ordained a priest in 1896. He spent his tertiary in Wynandsrade in the Netherlands. From 1900 he researched questions of ecclesiastical history, namely the establishment of the office of bishop in Luxembourg.

From 1903 to 1910 Dunin-Borkowski was a religion teacher in Feldkirch; During this time the first volume of his biography Spinozas was written . From 1911 to 1918 he led a Gymnasiastentagesheim in Bonn , was there since 1912 member of the Academic and Scientific Association Renaissance . In 1918 he moved to Munich to expand the Spinozabuch from 1910 by a further three volumes into a comprehensive, philosopher-centered portrayal of the 17th century, covering all - especially libertine and subversive - aspects of the intellectual life of the Netherlands on 2,500 pages and learned Europe. At the same time, he also published educational treatises and published in primarily Jesuit magazines such as Voices from Maria Laach .

From 1920 he worked as the spiritual director of the theologian convict in Breslau. It was there that Josef Pieper got to know him, who wrote in his autobiography that Dunin-Borkowski was "one of the very few people I have known to whom I would without hesitation recognize the attribute 'wisdom'". At this time he expanded his research and also dealt with the prehistory of radical Reformation movements ( Unitarianism , Anabaptism , Socinianism ), about which he wrote three fundamental and highly regarded (although later partly refuted) treatises. After requesting his dismissal, Dunin-Borkowski moved first to Koblenz and then to Munich in 1933, where he died of a heart attack on May 1, 1934.

Dunin-Borkowski's Spinoza monograph is the result of decades of work and is considered to be one of the standard works, which is mainly due to the large number of contexts used to situate Spinoza's philosophy - above all Jewish and Arab philosophy, late scholasticism, intellectual libertinism, Spanish philosophy, the literature of the Marranos - has not yet been outbid and will hardly ever be outdone. The book contains excursions to many sciences and currents of the 17th century, so that it is also considered a fundamental representation in many other disciplines.

Fonts

  • The more recent research on the beginnings of the episcopate . Herder, Freiburg, 1900. (= parts from Maria-Laach; supplementary books; 77.)
  • On the text history and text criticism of the oldest biography of Benedict de Spinoza . In: Archive for the History of Philosophy NF 19 (1904), p. 1 34.
  • The young De Spinoza. Life and career in the light of world philosophy . Aschendorff, Münster, 1910. 2nd edition 1933 (= Spinoza; 1st)
  • Gleanings on the oldest history of Spinozism . In: Archive for the history of philosophy 24, 1911, p. 61 98.
  • The first appendix to De Spinoza's short treatise . In: Chronicon Spinozanum 1 (1921), p. 63 90.
  • Spinozas Korte Negotiation of God, de Mensch en deszelfs Welstand . In: Chronicon Spinozanum 3 (1923), pp. 108-141.
  • From the letter portfolio of a famous 17th century convert . In: Voices of the Time. Monthly magazine for the spiritual life of the present 105 (1923), pp. 132–147.
  • Source studies on the prehistory of the Unitarians of the 16th century . In: 75 years of Stella Matutina. Festschrift. Volume I. Self-published, Feldkirch 1931, pp. 91-138.
  • Investigations into the literature of the Unitarians before Faustus Socini . In: 75 years of Stella Matutina. Festschrift. Volume II. Self-published, Feldkirch, 1931, 103-137.
  • The grouping of the anti-Trinitarians of the 16th century . In: Scholastik 7 (1932), pp. 481-523.
  • The young church. Considerations for theologians from the Acts of the Apostles . Franz Borgmeyer, Hildesheim, 1932.
  • Spinoza after three hundred years . Ferdinand Dümmlers Verlag, Berlin, 1932.
  • From the days of Spinoza . T. 1: The decision year 1657 . - T. 2: The new life . –T. 3: The life's work . Aschendorff. Münster, 1933. (= Spinoza; 2.1–3.)
  • The physics of Spinoza . In: Septimana Spinozana. Acta conventus oecumenici in memoriam B. de Sp. Hagae Comitis 1933, pp. 85-101.
  • Spinoza after three hundred years (extract :). In: Norbert Altwicker (Hrsg.): Texts on the history of Spinozism. WBG, Darmstadt 1971, pp. 59-74.

literature

  • Carl Gebhardt : Stanislaus von Dunin Borkowski as Spinoza-biograaf . In: Erasmus 4 (1936).
  • Carl Gebhardt: One Way to Spinoza. With reference to Stanislaus von Dunin-Borkowski . In: Philosophia (Belgrad) 1936, pp. 339-344.
  • Caroline Louise Thijssen-Schoute: Nederlands Cartesianisme . Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Mij., Amsterdam, 1954., pp. 372-374: De zogenaamde dynamic interpretatie van het spinozisme .
  • Bernhard Stasiewski:  Dunin-Borkowski, Zbigniew Stanislaus Martin Graf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 198 ( digitized version ). - mainly deals with the educator
  • Otto Syre SJ: Calendar of the Society of Jesus , May 1st ( online )

Web links

proof

  1. ^ Friedrich Feldhaus: Ceslaus Schneider. A Silesian interpreter of Thomas . In: Archives for Silesian Church History Vol. XXII 1964; supplemented by material from Johannes Inden's Floisdorf parish archive ( online ( memento of the original dated August 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . ), Editor's note. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / floisdorf-info.de
  2. ↑ Fritz Aldefeld (ed.): Total directory of RKDB Neuss 1,931th
  3. ↑ Josef Pieper: Nobody knew yet. Autobiographical records 1904 - 1945. Munich 1976, p. 73.
  4. ^ Rudolf Pfeiffer: History of Classical Scholarship from 1300 to 1850 . Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1976, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Dunin-Borkowski, Stanislaus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunin-Borkowski, Zbigniew Stanislaus Martin Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pedagogue, church, religion and philosophy historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH near Lemberg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1934
Place of death Munich