Hermann Friedmann

Adolph Hermann Friedmann alias Abram Hersh Friedman (born 30 Märzjul / April 11 1873greg in Białystok, .. † May 25, 1957 in Heidelberg ) was a German philosopher and jurist.

Life

Hermann Friedmann was the eldest son of the banker and president of the Latvian State Bank Isidor Moritz Bielostozkij called Friedmann and the Fruma Leiba, Grodinskaja. At the age of three years his parents moved with him from Białystok to Riga, the capital of the Russian Baltic provinces. There he attended secondary school and from 1883 to 1891 the Gouvernementsgymnasium where he graduated on 11 June 1891.

After studying law and history at the Imperial University of Dorpat to (1891-1896), Commercial Science at the Polytechnic in Riga (1896-1898) and a study of the natural sciences and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Ruprecht- Karls- University Heidelberg Hermann Friedmann became Doctor of Law in 1897 in Heidelberg. doctorate.

In his time in Berlin Hermann Friedmann was with Rudolf Steiner Member of Giordano Bruno Union and in Friedrichshagener poet circle, where he was friends especially with Bruno Wille and Wilhelm Bölsche. In his Berlin period he also met regularly with Maximilian Harden.

From 1898 to 1902 he worked as a lawyer in Basel; In 1902 he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Geneva. In 1903 he lived in Constantinople Opel. Between 1904 and 1906 he worked in Riga, Dorpat and Saint Petersburg. From 1906 to 1934 he lived in Finland, where he served until 1918 as a legal advisor to the Imperial Governor General of the Russian Empire in Finland and received the permission for teaching history of philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

Because of the change in the political situation in Europe moved Hermann Friedmann in 1934 with his wife Clara, nee Hinrichsen ( this came from the Sephardic family Henriques, had settled after fleeing Portugal in Hamburg and Schwerin ) to London, where they until were staying in the postwar period. He participated in the founding of the German PEN group in London and was its president from 1946.

1950 Herrmann Friedman was appointed an honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg, where he taught international law and natural law. In 1951 he became honorary president of the German PEN Centre. Hermann Friedmann issued numerous works on German literature of the 20th century.

Writings

  • The incorporeal thing. For the systematics of private law. Reich, Basel 1900
  • Actual delivery under Swiss law. In: Journal of Swiss law, c.1901
  • The mechanics and philosophy. In: The Future, ed. v. Maximilian Harden. Publisher of the future, Berlin c.1902
  • Anti- Haeckel ( replica on Friedrich Loofs ' Anti- Haeckel ). In: The future 11/44, publisher of the future, Berlin 1903
  • The convergence of the organisms. An empirically grounded theory as a substitute for the theory of evolution. Paetel, Berlin 1904
  • About a physical finiteness principle and the general expression of the natural law. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1905
  • The First Day. Seals, scenes and sentences. Bergmann, Dorpat 1906
  • The world of forms. System of a morphological idealism. Paetel, Berlin 1925; 2 erg A. Beck, Munich 1930
  • Science and Symbol. Elevation of a symbol -related science. Honest stone ( = C. H. Beck), Munich 1949
  • Meaningful Odyssey. Story of a life and a time ( 1873-1950 ). Beck, Munich 1950
  • Epilegomena. To diagnose the scientific age. Beck, Munich 1954
  • The present situation of the literary man. In: German literature in the 20th century. Structures and forms. Rothe, Heidelberg 1954
  • Ina Seidel. In: Christian poets of the present. Contributions to European literature. Rothe, Heidelberg 1955
  • The mind. Thoughts on Thymologie of man. Beck, Munich 1956
  • The tragedy of God. A match result. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1957
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