Oskar Ewald

Oskar Ewald ( pseudonym eigtl: Oskar Ewald Friedlander, born September 2, 1881 in Bur Sankt Georgen / Borský Jur (Slovakia ); † September 25, 1940 in Oxford ) was an Austro- Hungarian philosopher and lecturer.

Life and work

Oskar Ewald was born in 1881 as the son of the religious historian Moritz Friedlander. After he began to study at the University of Vienna Law, he moved into the field of study Philosophy. After receiving his doctorate (1903) and habilitation of Theoretical Philosophy (1909 ) he taught until 1928 as a lecturer at the University of Vienna. From 1926 he also held outside Austria lectures.

In 1938, he was interned in the concentration camp at Dachau, but was released in 1939 after the intervention of Alexander von Muralt. He returned to Vienna and then fled to Britain, where he soon died out.

Oskar Ewald was among the religious socialists as a leading figure. 1971 Ewald street was named after him in the 11th district of Vienna Simmering.

Works

• Nietzsche's doctrine in its basic terms. The ewgige delivery of the match and the Meaning of Superman. Hofmann Verlag, Berlin, 1904.
• Life issues. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1910.
• The rebirth of the spirit. Hofmann Verlag, Berlin, 1920.
• The revival. Self-knowledge and world design. Hofmann Verlag, Berlin, 1922.
• The French Enlightenment philosophy. Reinhard Verlag, Nendeln 1973 ( Nachdr d ed Munich 1924).
• The religion of life. Kober Verlag, Basel 1925.
• Lao Tzu. Georg Müller Verlag, Munich 1928.
• Kant's critical idealism as the basis of epistemology and ethics. Hofmann Verlag, Berlin, 1908.
• Freidenktertum and religion. A word of understanding for a free spirit and a seeker of God. Rotapfelverlag, Leipzig 1928.
• Richard Avenarius as the founder of Empirokritizismus. An epistemological investigation of the relationship between value and reality. Hofmann Verlag, Berlin, 1905.
• Basis and abyss. Preludes to a philosophy of life. Hofmann Verlag, Berlin 1909 ( 2 vols ).