Otto Buek
Otto Buek ( born November 19, 1873 in Saint Petersburg, † 1966, probably in a nursing home in Paris) was a German philosopher, writer and translator.
Life and work
Otto Buek was a friend in his youth with the likewise originating from St. Petersburg later writer and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas - Salomé. In Heidelberg he studied philosophy, mathematics, and a Ph.D. in chemistry in Marburg, where he may have come into contact with Kurt Wild Hagen, with a dissertation on "The atomic theory, and Faraday's concept of matter: a logical investigation," Dr. phil. Later he lived in Berlin as a journalist, translator ( of works by Tolstoy, hearts and Unamuno ) as well as editor ( with Kurt Wild Hagen of works by Turgenev, a complete edition of Gogol and two volumes of the ten-volume Cassirer Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant); in the 1920s he also worked as a correspondent for the Argentine magazine La Nación. He was, inter alia, friends with Senna Hoy and Franz Pfemfert.
Buek belonged to the circle around Alfred Richard Meyer. Philosophically, he was regarded as a neo-Kantian and followers of the teaching until 1912 in Marburg philosopher Hermann Cohen. In the Festschrift for Hermann Cohen's 70th birthday Buek is represented with a talk on " Faraday's system of nature and its conceptual foundations ."
1913 Buek tried with the historian Paul Herre ( 1876-1962 ) on the publication of the magazine "The Humanities ." However, they had released in the same year and is still based magazine " The natural sciences " in 1914 are already set again in contrast to that of Arnold Berliner ( 1862-1942 ).
As a college friend of the doctor and pacifists Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874-1964) signed Buek together with Albert Einstein and Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster in October 1914 Nicolai's " Appeal to the Europeans " as a counter-declaration to justify the German invasion of neutral Belgium ( Manifesto of 93); the call could appear only in 1917 as an introduction to Nicolai's " Biology of War " in Zurich.
Johannes R. Becher dedicated the poem " Prayer in the winter of 1915 /16" "Doctor Otto Buek in friendship." In a letter of 18 December 1916 Katharina Kippenberg it counts Buek to the " seven people I love ."
The early twenties had Buek with Nikolai and others such as the Prague dating " ," Prof. "Otto Fanta to creating the first " Einstein movie " called the first great science film, which was then shown after protest by Einstein under the title The foundations of Einstein's theory of relativity.
Otto Buek later emigrated to France, where he was in 1960 made by Paul Raabe find in a nursing home; here he is likely to be advanced in years 1966, died.
Publications
- The atomism and Faraday's concept of matter. In: Archives for the History of Philosophy. Vol 18, 1904, ISSN 0943-3988, pp. 65-139 ( a separate report also: Reimer, Berlin 1905).
- Critique of Marxism. In: The action. Vol 1, 1911, Sp 1029 to 1033.
- Faraday's system of nature and its conceptual foundations. In: Philosophical essays. Hermann Cohen 's 70th birthday (4 July 1912) offered. Cassirer, Berlin 1912, pp. 99-122.