Paul Hensel

Paul Hugo Wilhelm Hensel ( born May 17, 1860 in United - Barthen at Königsberg i.Pr ( East Prussia ), † November 11, 1930 in Erlangen, Germany ), a German philosopher, son of the landowner and entrepreneur Sebastian Hensel, brother of the mathematician Kurt Hensel was, grandson of the composer Fanny Hensel and the painter Wilhelm Hensel and descendant of the entrepreneur and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Life and work

Paul Hensel in 1885, after studying philosophy, history and classical philology doctorate in Freiburg. In 1888 he qualified as a professor at William diaper band in Strasbourg. In 1895 he was appointed associate professor in Strasbourg. Since 1898 he worked as an associate professor in Heidelberg. In 1902 he was appointed full professor of systematic philosophy to Erlangen, where he taught until 1928.

Hensel was a friend of Max Weber, with whom he learned Congress in 1904 for the World Exhibition in St. Louis traveled .. In 1911, he again traveled to the United States and visited Boston and Harvard University. He was 1915 doctoral supervisor of Hans Reichenbach, who earned his doctorate at him with a thesis on probability theory.

In addition to the academic teaching Hensel also dedicated adult and workers' education. So he held a successful series of lectures in Nuremberg and Fürth. In 1922 he co-founded the local chapter of Erlangen -Nuremberg- Fürth the Kant Society, over which he presided since 1925. In Erlangen Hensel was named " Erlangen Socrates " the.

Paul Hensel married in 1896 in her first marriage Käthe Rosenhayn ( 1861-1910 ). The marriage came from the son of Bruno Hensel ( 1899-1945 ). 1917 married Paul Hensel and Elizabeth Nelson, born Schemmann ( 1884-1954 ). In his first marriage Elizabeth Nelson of 1907 was married to the philosopher Leonard Nelson until 1912. Paul Hensel and Leonard Nelson came both from the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Your son Gerhard Nelson (1909-1944) brought Elisabeth Nelson in their new marriage. With Paul Hensel they had two daughters: the pianist Fanny Kistner (1918-2006) and the historian Cécile Lowenthal - Hensel ( 1923-2012 ).

Writings

  • The position of Chancellor for the state rights of the German Empire. Munich 1882.
  • About the relationship of the pure Ego in Fichte to the unity of apperception in Kant Freiburg 1885.
  • Ethical knowledge and ethical behavior. , 1889.
  • Thomas Carlyle. 3rd edition. From Mann, Stuttgart 1901. 3 durchges. 1922 ( number of classics of philosophy. 11).
  • Main problems of ethics. Nine lectures. Teubner, Leipzig, 1903.
  • Sebastian Hensel. A life picture of Germany's apprenticeship years. 2nd edition. Behr, Berlin, 1904.
  • The Poles danger to the Masurian population. Eastern Marches, Berlin 1911.
  • Rousseau Teubner, Leipzig, 1907, 1912. 3 durchges. Edition: 1919 ( series from nature and Spirit World 180. ).
  • Small writings and lectures ed. Ernst Hoffmann. Henning, Greiz 1920 ( essays from the years 1892-1919, for example, to be confused with The Horrible ETA Hoffmann, Ludwig Feuerbach, What can the German liberalism of spruce learn? Not with the edition of 1930 )
  • Small writings and lectures. On the 70th birthday of the author. Edited by Ernst Hoffmann, Heinrich Rickert. Mohr, Tübingen, 1930.
  • Foreword to: Gerbrand Dekker: The reversion to myth. Schelling's last conversion. Oldenbourg, München 1930.
  • Philosophy of religion. Ed from the estate. by Friedrich Sauer. With Notes What Paul Hensel means philosophy of religion? by Joseph Münzhuber. V & R, Göttingen 1934.
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