Paul Yorck von Wartenburg

Hans Ludwig David Paul Yorck von Wartenberg ( born April 1, 1835 in Berlin, † September 12, 1897 at Schloss small oil Oława County, Lower Silesia ) was a German jurist and philosopher, and Heir of the good small oil.

Family (see also Yorck von Wartenberg )

Paul Yorck was the grandson of the royal Prussian Field Marshal Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenberg. His mother, Bertha Countess Yorck (1809-1845), was the philosophical, literary and musically well-educated daughter of the Prussian Major-General Johann Georg Emil von shower. Paul Yorck married on October 3, 1860 in Berlin, the granddaughter of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Louise of Wildenbruchstrasse ( born April 28, 1838 in Berlin, † December 20, 1918 at Castle Post - oil ), the elder sister of the writer Ernst von Wild break (1845-1909) and daughter of the royal Prussian lieutenant general of Louis Wildenbruchstrasse (1803-1874), Consul General in Beirut and his first wife Ernestine von Langen (1805-1858), maid of honor to the Princess Radziwill.

His grandchildren were the resistance fighters Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenberg (executed 1944) and Paul Graf Yorck von Wartenberg ( 1902-2002 ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1854 at the Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Breslau he took in 1855 in Bonn, the study of jurisprudence and philosophy. But in the same year he moved to Wroclaw ( Lower Silesia ) to continue his studies. In 1857 he undertook with his father Ludwig his first trip to Italy, to which he, inter alia, to remembered in his Italian diary.

In March 1858, he takes off his exams. After his clerkship in Breslau, he moved with his family in 1861 to Potsdam, where he prepared for the Assessor exam. In 1865, he took over after his father's death, the management of the family estate small oil and the hereditary seat of the family in the Prussian mansion.

In the late 1870s he met them by Breslau in 1871, philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey. From this encounter, a close friendship and scientific debate developed. 1891 Yorck traveled again to Italy.

Scientific Work

The scientific papers were published from his estate, created especially in his last years of life. His scientific work was decisively shaped by the confrontation with Dilthey, in turn, consumed by her. In addition to his employment with the Greek philosophers Yorck developed a hermeneutical philosophy of history as a " psychology of history" and worked out the consciousness positions of epochs. In addition, he underwent the phenomenon of space and spatiality of a psychological analysis. His thinking was especially important for the development of the concept of historicity and had influence on Heidegger and Gadamer.

Works

  • Correspondence between Wilhelm Dilthey and Count Yorck von Wartenberg Paul 1877 - 1897, Hall 1923, reprint Hildesheim 1995
  • Italian diary, Darmstadt 1927, 2nd edition 1939 Leipzig
  • Attitude of consciousness and history. A fragment from the philosophical legacy, Tübingen 1956, 2nd edition 1991 Hamburg
  • Reflection and decision. Questions to the present. Essays and lectures, Stuttgart 1971
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