Robert Saitschick

Robert M. Saitschick (also Zaichik, Russian Рувим Маркович Зайчик; born April 24, 1868 in Mstislavl, Russian Empire, now Belarus, † January 29, 1965 in Horgen ) was a Russian- Swiss literary historian and philosopher.

Life

He attended the Russian gymnasium of his native town, but came as a student in conflict with government bodies, and should be banished to Siberia. With the help of friends of the family managed to escape to Vienna, where Saitschick studied literature. At the University of Bern, he received his doctorate and became a lecturer in 1889. After a year he continued in this capacity, and lived for two years as a freelance writer in Berlin, Geneva and Paris. In 1894 he became professor of comparative literature at the University of Neuchâtel. From 1895 to 1914 he taught at the Electives Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 1899 he was naturalized in Zurich. From 1914 to 1925 he was a professor at the University of Cologne. In 1925 he was living as a freelance writer in Switzerland again.

Honors

Works

• Contributions to the history of the legal status of the Jews, especially in the area of ​​today's Austria- Hungary, from the tenth to the sixteenth century. Bern 1890 (Dissertation)
• Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, 1892
• Man and his aim in 1914
• From the inner need of our age. An outlook on future path of Faust, 1917
• The Spiritual Crisis of European Humanity, 1924
• Fate and redemption, 1927
• Creator of the highest values ​​of life, 1945
• The State and which is more than he, 1946
• Bismarck and the fate of the German people. On the psychology and history of the German question, Munich 1949