Willy Freytag

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Willy Freytag (born June 6, 1873 in Jüterbog ; † September 8, 1944 in Neuwied ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Family and education

Willy Freytag was born in the Prussian district town of Jüterbog ( Brandenburg province ) as the son of the businessman Reinhold Freytag. His father was the owner of a liquor and fruit wine factory there. The parents sent the boy to the community school . In 1883 his father acquired the iron wholesaler JA Uhlig and the family moved to Halle an der Saale , where he attended the Latin secondary school for two years and then for seven years the secondary school of the Francke Foundations , which he left at Easter 1892 with the secondary school leaving certificate. He devoted himself first at the Freiberg Mining Academy of ferrous metallurgy , but then went its inclination to the humanities by. After he had passed the Abitur exams at the grammar school in Nordhausen , he moved to the universities of Leipzig , Bonn , Munich , Halle and again Bonn one after the other . At first Freytag was particularly concerned with historical and then with philosophical studies. On August 2, 1898, with a thesis on Locke's theory of substances at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

Teaching

Freytag stayed at the faculty and prepared his habilitation , which was determined on February 19, 1900. There he got a position as a private lecturer and was appointed associate professor with effect from March 25, 1908 .

In the summer semester of 1910 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the University of Zurich as the successor to Friedrich Schumann as associate professor . His position in Zurich was not without controversy. Some circles questioned his abilities as a lecturer. He had a reputation for approaching subjects in a very abstract way, which was viewed as disadvantageous with regard to the academic training of the students. The promotion to full professor requested by the philosophical faculty was only approved by the management of the university after several lecture visits and despite some reservations in 1911. With Freytag's election, the more experimental orientation of the chair, for which his predecessor had stood, gave way to a clear return to the historical foundations of philosophy and systematic philosophy. His teaching assignment also included the history of pedagogy as part of university teacher training .

In over two decades in the service of Zurich University, Freytag supervised 25 dissertations.

Freytag's teaching activities at the University of Zurich came to an end in 1933 after the National Socialist sentiments of the German philosophy professor, who also briefly held the position of district leader for north-eastern Switzerland in the NSDAP / AO , had become public. After a speech at the delegates' assembly of the Association of German Associations in Zurich, at which he praised the services of Adolf Hitler , the People's Law and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung raised the question of the sustainability of an avowed National Socialist on a Swiss chair. Freytag then submitted his resignation in September 1933 and returned to Germany with his wife and their three children.

Willy Freytag died in 1944 at the age of 71 in an Allied air raid.

Fonts

  • Locke's theory of substances. Diss., Halle adS: Niemeyer Verlag, 1899
  • Realism and the problem of transcendence. Halle adS: Niemeyer Verlag, 1902
  • The knowledge of the outside world. A logical-epistemological investigation. Halle adS: Niemeyer Verlag, 1904
  • The development of Greek epistemology up to Aristotle. Main features presented by W. Freytag. Halle adS: Niemeyer Verlag, 1905
  • Investigations into a Science of the Moral. Halle adS: Niemeyer Verlag, 1916
  • The methodological problems of pedagogy. In: Treatises on philosophy and pedagogy, volume 3. Leipzig: Reisland, 1924
  • About Kantian idealism. In: Treatises on Philosophy and Pedagogy, Issue 11. Leipzig: Reisland, 1924
  • Religion and logic. Conversation between Anselm and Markwart. In: Pedagogical Magazine, No. 1266. Langensalza: Beyer, 1929
  • A fraternity league thousands of years ago. The educational-political problem of the Pythagoreans. In: Journal of the History of Education and Teaching. No. 32/2. Berlin, 1933
  • Irrational or Rational? Investigations and drafting an interpretation. Berlin: Junker and Dünnhaupt, 1935

literature

  • Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968 . Bouvier, Bonn 1968.
  • Lucien Criblez: Zurich: Un champ disciplinaire composite pour des formations professionnelles différenciées (1857–1949). In: Rita Hofstetter Rita / Bernard Schneuwly (eds.): Emergence des sciences de l'éducation en Suisse à la croisée de traditions académiques contrastées. Fin du 19e - première moitié du 20e siècle. Bern: 2007, pp. 31–56.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Bader: The history of the iron shop JA Uhlig. 1727, 1827, 1927 , Halle, 1927
  2. ↑ CV in dissertation
  3. ^ Dossier: Freytag, Willy, 1873–1944, philosophy, history of philosophy, pedagogy, logic, metaphysics and epistemology. UZH archive . Signature: AB.1.0285. link
  4. ↑ Andrea Cattani: The "Freytag Affair". In: History of Pedagogy at the University of Zurich. June 24, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Freytag, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Jueterbog
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1944
Place of death Neuwied