Max Wentscher

Max Wentscher ( born May 12, 1862 in Graudenz, † September 29, 1942 in Bonn ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Max Wentscher was born in 1866 in Graudenz as the son of a businessman. He attended the grammar school of Johanneums in Hamburg, where he made his Abitur in 1881. From 1881 to 1887, he studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Halle- Wittenberg and Leipzig. In 1893 he received his doctorate with the thesis " Lotze 's concept of God and its metaphysical reasoning " in Halle- Wittenberg. In 1897 he qualified as a professor in Bonn. By 1904, lecturer and honorary professor was in Bonn. From 1904 to 1906 he was associate professor in Königsberg, 1906-1918 again in Bonn. From 1918 until his retirement in 1933 he was professor of philosophy and education at the University of Bonn. His main areas of work were ethics and history of philosophy.

Wentscher was Protestant and married to the philosopher Else Wentscher (1877-1946), who translated the works of John Stuart Mill into German. The couple had two daughters.

Works (selection)

  • History of Ethics ( 1931); Volume 3 of the series History of Philosophy in Längschnitten by Willy Moog, Berlin: Juncker and Dünnhaupt, 11 vols
  • Metaphysics (1928 ), Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co.
  • Education ( 1926), Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co.
  • Fechner and Lotze (1925 ), Munich: E. Reinhardt
  • Epistemology (1920 ), Berlin: United. Scientific Verl, Sammlung Goschen, 2 vols
  • Introduction to Philosophy (1916 ), Berlin: Goschen, 4th Neudr
  • Hermann Lotze (1913 ), Heidelberg: Winter
  • The problem of freedom of teaching (1907 ), Heidelberg: JCB Mohr
  • Ethics (1902/1906), Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 2 vols
  • About physical and psychological causality and the principle of psycho - physical parallelism (1896 ), Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth
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