Teodors Celms

Teodor Celms (born 2 ^jul. / 14. July  1893 ^greg. In Walk , Livonia , † 1989 in the USA ) was a Baltic German philosopher and university lecturer.

Life

Celms graduated from Walk Business School in 1910 and began studying economics in Moscow . He also studied philosophy and returned to Livonia in 1920. From 1922 to 1925 he studied in Freiburg im Breisgau at the university under the neo-Kantian Heinrich John Rickert and his successor Edmund Husserl . In 1923 he graduated as Dr. phil. and in 1927 he was a private lecturer and then in 1936 professor at the University of Latvia in Riga . In 1929 he became a correspondent for the "German literary newspaper for criticism of international science" . He fled Riga in 1944 before the city was conquered by the Red Army . He went to Germany where he taught as a professor at the University of Göttingen . In 1949 he left Germany to emigrate to the USA.

There he taught philosophy and sociology at Augustana College in Rock Island , Illinois for 14 years. He retired in 1963.

Celms died in 1989 and was buried in the Rock Island Memorial Cemetery.

Works

• The phenomenological idealism of Husserl , 1928.
• Subject and subjectification , 1943.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (Ed.): Phenomenology World-Wide: Foundations - Expanding Dynamics - Life-Engagements: A Guide for Research and Study. P. 312f. ( Limited preview with Google Book Search ).