Wilhelm Szilasi

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Wilhelm Szilasi , Hungarian Vilmos Szilasi , (born January 19, 1889 in Budapest , Hungary , † November 1, 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German - Hungarian philosopher and phenomenologist .

Life

Wilhelm Szilasi studied philosophy and taught as an honorary professor in Budapest from 1918 . In 1919 he went to Germany. Here he was a student and colleague of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger .

In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland due to National Socialist persecution and lived in Brissago until the end of his life . He maintained contacts with both Hungarian and German intellectuals and artists. From Hungary, for example, he was friends with Mihály Babits, Tibor Déry, Milán Füst and Georg Lukács . In Germany he was in close contact with Wolfgang Schadewaldt , Ludwig Binswanger and Karl Löwith .

In 1947 he was appointed as a representative for the suspended Martin Heidegger "honorary professor with the exercise of a chair" at the University of Freiburg , from 1956 he taught there as a civil servant professor . His successor was Werner Marx in 1964 .

In 1958 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

plant

His scientific work was significantly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. A special focus of Szilasi's was the relationship between philosophy and the natural sciences. He had closer contact with the "Münsteraner Schule" around Joachim Ritter , especially Hermann Lübbe and Odo Marquard .

Publications (selection)

  • Imagination and Knowledge , Francke, Bern 1969.
  • Philosophy as a strict science , Klostermann, Frankfurt 1965. (various new editions)
  • Philosophy and natural science , Francke, Bern 1961.
  • Introduction to the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1959.
  • Power and powerlessness of the spirit - interpretations of Plato , Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 1946.
  • Science as Philosophy , Europa Verlag, Zurich 1945.

literature

  • Helmut Höfling (ed.): Contributions to philosophy and science. Wilhelm Szilasi on his 70th birthday ., Franke, Munich 1970.
  • Ernesto Grassi : In memory of Wilhelm Szilasi , in: ders., Power of the picture . Cologne 1970. pp. 9-12.
  • Zoltán Szalai: “How much I care about all your things and your development”: The connection between Wilhelm Szilasis and Tibor Dérys until 1945. In: Andrea Benedek, Renata Alice Crisan, Szabolcs János-Szatmári, Noémi Kordics, Eszter Szabó (eds.) : Cross-cultural explorations: living, writing and learning in two cultures . (Großwardeiner contributions to German studies.) Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; New York; Paris; Vienna: Peter Lang Verlag, 2012. pp. 229–248.
  • Zoltán Szalai: Exploitation of Networks in Philological Research: The Fate of the Estate of Wilhelm Szilasi from Freiburg via Edmonton to Budapest. In: Ágnes Fekete, Miklós Fenyves, András Komáromy (eds.): Studies by young Hungarian Germanists : Contributions to the first joint annual conference in 2010. (Budapest contributions to German studies 59th) Budapest: ELTE Germanistic Institute, 2012. pp. 102–108.
  • Zoltán Szalai: Two Positions on Treason: The debate between Wilhelm Szilasi and Mihály Babits about the betrayal of intellectuals. In: Hungary Yearbook. Journal for interdisciplinary hungarology. Volume 30, 2011. pp. 105-118.
  • Zoltán Szalai: "In my life I have not met a larger example of friendship". The friendship of Wilhelm Szilasis and Tibor Déry after 1945. In: András F. Balogh, Péter Varga (Hrsg.): "Life in poetry": Festschrift for Magdolna Orosz on the 60th birthday. (Budapest contributions to German studies 57.) Budapest: ELTE Germanistic Institute, 2011. pp. 319–330.
  • Zoltán Szalai: In the shadow of Heidegger. Introduction to the life and work of Wilhelm Szilasi. Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 2017.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ KONRAD ADENAUER - A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT AND A EUROPEAN STATESMAN. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Szilasi, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szilasi, Vilmos (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian philosopher and phenomenologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1966
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau