Paul Barth (sociologist)

Paul Ernst Emil Barth ( born August 1, 1858 in Baruthe in oil which Silesia, † September 30, 1922 in Leipzig, Ernst Emil Paul Barth ) was a German philosopher and educator.

Life

As the son of the teacher Ernst Barth and his wife Pauline Grünig Paul Ernst Emil Barth was born on August 1, 1858 in Baruthe. In 1875 he entered the University of Breslau to study classical philology, history and philosophy, which he in 1881 at the University of Leipzig awarded the degree of doctor phil. completed. Between 1882 and 1888 he worked at high schools to Legnica, Leipzig and Jena as a teacher and in 1890 he qualified as a professor in Leipzig. Then he was at the university philosophy lecturer. This he remained until 1897, after which he taught philosophy and pedagogy as an associate professor. With Margaret Schirmer he married on April 7, 1902. From 1918, he held a position as ordinary honorary professor, which he retained until his death on September 30, 1922 in Leipzig at the age of 64 years.

Barth has focused particularly on morality and university education. He took history as a concrete sociology true story as an abstract theoretical sociology. Based on this assumption, he wrote an overview of the education story in which he addressed the problems of educational and teaching doctrine. He called for a real-life moral education.

Works

• De infinitioni apud poetas Scaeni cos satinos usu (PhD 1881)
• Hegel's philosophy of history and the Hegelians ( Habilitation thesis, 1890)
• The philosophy of history as sociology. Part 1: Introduction and critical survey (Leipzig 1897)
• The elements of the education and teaching doctrine. Shown on the basis of the psychology of presence (Leipzig 1906)
• The history of education in sociology and the history of ideas lighting (Leipzig 1911)
• The Survival Guide (1920 )
• The Stoa (Stuttgart 1922)