Walter Rüegg

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Walter Rüegg (born April 4, 1918 in Zurich ; † April 29, 2015 in Villette VD ) was a Swiss classical philologist and sociologist .

Life

Rüegg attended the canton school in Schaffhausen and studied from 1936 to 1941 classical philology and economics at the universities of Zurich , Florence and Paris .

From 1941 to 1952 he worked as a high school teacher for Greek and Latin . After receiving his doctorate (1944) as Dr. phil. I. and his habilitation (1950) in Zurich, he was from 1950 to 1961 initially private lecturer and titular professor (1959) for "History of the humanities with special consideration of humanism " at the University of Zurich. In 1961 he was appointed full professor of sociology at the University of Frankfurt , which he also headed as rector between 1965 and 1970 . In 1967/68 Rüegg was also President of the West German Rectors' Conference . From 1973 until his retirement in 1986, Rüegg taught at the University of Bern . He held visiting professorships in Chicago, Cologne, St. Gallen and Paris as well as management positions in Swiss, German and European science organizations. He was a co-founder and board member of the Federal Freedom of Science . In 1992 he became a member of the Academia Scientarum Europaea .

Rüegg was the author and editor of numerous publications on the history , sociology and politics of European education . The best known is the four-volume history of the university in Europe , which he edited , of which all four volumes have now been published. The first two volumes were edited together with Hilde De Ridder-Symoens . Rüegg was also one of the initiators of the Funkkolleg , a further training offer in the media network of radio broadcasts and additional written working documents for all interested parties, regardless of their school leaving certificate.

estate

In 2013, Walter Rüegg personally donated the bulk of his estate to the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich in his home town of Villette VD on Lake Geneva .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Cicero and humanism. Formal research on Petrarch and Erasmus. Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1946.
  • as ed. with Walter Artelt : Studies on the history of medicine in the nineteenth century, Volume I: The doctor and the sick in society in the 19th century. Stuttgart 1967.
  • Sociology (= Funk-Kolleg for the understanding of modern society. 6, ZDB -ID 541229-8 = Fischer-Bücherei. 1031). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1969.
  • as editor with Otto Neuloh : On the sociological theory and analysis of the 19th century = studies on the change in society and education in the nineteenth century. 1, ZDB -ID 120257-1 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971.
  • Impetus. Essays and lectures on the dialogical way of life. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7875-5243-X .
  • as editor: cultural criticism and youth cult. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Endangered order of life. Studies in humanistic sociology. Artemis, Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-7608-0483-7 .
  • as editor with Dieter Wuttke : Ethics in Humanism (= contributions to research on humanism. 5). Boldt, Boppard 1979, ISBN 3-7646-1743-8 .
  • as editor: History of the University in Europe . 4 volumes. Beck, Munich 1993-2010, ISBN 3-406-36956-1 .
  • The 68s and the Frankfurt School. Lecture given by the Margot and Friedrich Becke Foundation on May 31, 2008 in Heidelberg (= publications of the Margot and Friedrich Becke Foundation in Heidelberg. 6). Winter, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-5552-4 .
  • University-Öffentlichkei t . Contributions from 50 years of university history and university politics . Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11500-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Rebenich : Humanism and Democracy. On the death of the historian and sociologist Walter Rüegg. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 5, 2015.
  2. ^ Obituary notice in FAZ
  3. ↑ Archives for Contemporary History, part of Walter Rüegg's estate (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Rüegg, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical philologist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2015
Place of death Villette VD