Wolfgang Strobl

Wolfgang Strobl

Wolfgang Strobl (born May 13, 1920 in Nuremberg ; † June 16, 1993 in Pamplona , Spain) was a university professor for philosophy of natural sciences, especially atomic and nuclear physics.

Life

Wolfgang Strobl studied since 1945 in the universities of Regensburg and Munich philosophy , psychology , ancient and modern languages, philology of Romance , Slavic (also Russian ), logic (at Britzelmeier), Mathematics ( Arnold Sommerfeld ) and physics ( Fritz Bopp , Walther Gerlach and Werner Heisenberg ).

After completing his studies , Strobl received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1952. phil. with the work The basic problem of natural philosophy and the ontological significance of the new physics . He completed his doctorate at the University of Munich with the grade “summa cum laude”. 1953 to 1960 he was a research assistant to Aloys Wenzl , Philosophy of Natural Sciences, University of Munich .

In 1962, Wolfgang Strobl obtained his licentiate degree from the University of Valencia, also with the degree “summa cum laude”, on the subject of the terms structure and relation from the perspective of modern natural sciences . In 1967 Strobl wrote another paper on Scientific Reality and its Philosophical Criticism ". This he completed at the University of Navarra in Pamplona (Spain) with the degree" Premio extraordinario ".

From 1960 to 1973 Strobl was professor and chair holder for philosophy and history of natural sciences at the Universidad Pontificia Salamanca with Venia legendi from the Vatican City . From 1970 to 1973 he was professor of atomic and nuclear physics and elementary particles as well as the history of science at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Granada . From 1964 to 1992 he was professor of philosophy in natural sciences at the University of Navarre .

Strobl wrote numerous writings with the aim of showing the tradition of the most important concepts of philosophy against modern materialism and the conviction of an outside world independent of consciousness: the bridge from the thoughts of Aristotle to Aurelius Augustinus , Albertus Magnus , Thomas Aquinas to Nikolaus von Kues bis to the knowledge of modern natural sciences - the effects on medicine , sociology and our technological life.

Visiting professorships and academic collaboration

• 1962 ff .: Residency and collaboration in the “Instituto Social León XIII” and “Pío XII”. Order: "Catholic social movement of the 19th century in Spain up to Rerum Novarum". Lectures: "The modern ideology and its philosophical precursors".
• 1962–1973: Visiting professorships and active participation in congresses in Madrid (Institut Luis Vives): Language and Sciences and Saragossa ( CSIC ): Philosophy of arithmetic and the ontology of number; Comillas University (Santander): Philosophy of Modern Science and Theology ; Meran , Italian-German cultural meeting: dialectics and dialogue .
• 1963–1968 he held special doctoral courses for physicists, mathematicians and chemists at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain).
• 1972: Member of the Centro Superior di Logica e Science comparata in Bologna .
• 1968: Lectures in Puerto Rico ( Universidad de Río Piedras , San Juan, Mayaguez, Ponce) on Truth and Reality and New York ( Columbia University , Fordham University , St. John's University ): The moral and legal understanding.
• 1968–1973: Collaboration and publications in the Philosophical Seminar Vienna: Natural Laws, Field Physics and Transcendental Philosophy.
• 1973: International Congress in Varna . Contribution: Philosophical questions of today's microphysics.
• 1973–1978: Brazil, Río de Janeiro, Universidade Gama Filho: The transcendental nature of humans and philosophical aspects of linguistic communication. Lecture at the Social Institute Morumbi, São Paulo, of the Benedictine order.
• 1978: Düsseldorf, International Congress of Philosophers: Mathematical Structures in Physical Reality; Successes and Limits of Mathematisability.
• 1978–1982: University of Bamberg : Theory of Perception and Knowledge: Humanities in Modern Life Research; The forgotten ontological truth.

honors and awards

Wolfgang Strobl was accepted into the Maximilianeum Foundation of the Bavarian State in 1938 .

Strobl's colleagues and friends paid tribute to him in an obituary volume entitled "Truth, Knowledge, Immortality / Verdad, Percepción, Inmortalidad" (Ed .: Facultad de Teología. Servicios Valentina 36, ​​1995) as a reminder of his lifelong philosophical work.

Web links

• Publications by Prof. Strobl at centrolinden.com
• Else Strobl and Wolf Strobl. " The Bavarian universities and colleges from 1945–1949 ". Journal for Bavarian State History, ZBLG, Vol .: 15. 1949, Munich, 1949.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "The basic problem of natural philosophy and the ontological significance of the new physics", Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 1950.
2. ↑ Publications
3. ↑ Maximilianeer from the year 1938