Rudolf Schottlaender

Rudolf Schott countries ( Complete name: Rudolf Julius Schott countries; * August 5, 1900 in Berlin, † January 4, 1988 in East Berlin ) was a German philosopher, classical scholar, translator and political journalist of Jewish origin.

Biography

Rudolf Schott countries studied philosophy in Berlin, Heidelberg (with Karl Jaspers and Ernst Hoffmann), Marburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Nicolai Hartmann. There he met Günther Stern (later known as Günther Anders a well-known philosophical writer, son of the psychologist William Stern ) know and his sister Hilda, whom he married shortly afterwards (in the first of three marriages ). Despite his rain student interest in phenomenology, Schott countries convened more on the Stoics and Spinoza, in whose spirit he had in 1921 resigned from the Jewish community. He received his Ph.D. in 1923 in Heidelberg at Ernst Hoffmann with a thesis on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.

During the Weimar Republic Schottlaender was a private scholar. With its transfer of the first part of "A la recherche du temps perdu ", the " The Way to Swann " in publishing " The Forge " published in 1926 under the title, he was the first German Proust translator. However, his translation was panned by the famous Ernst Robert Curtius Romanists such that the publisher had to print the translation of the French Proust Publisher pass into other hands. There were also honorable voices, inter alia, by Alfred Kerr and Hermann Hesse, which, however, is not publicly available found themselves against the authority of Curtius to a defense. Last hidden in Berlin, Hitler survived Schottlaender time and persecution of the Jews.

After 1945 he taught as a teacher of Latin and Greek in West Berlin, at the Goethe School in Lichterfelde West. In the meantime (1947-1949), he taught at the Technical University of Dresden philosophy, but got a pugnacious Democrat and humanist in conflict with the authorities of the Soviet occupation zone. He then went back to West Berlin and worked as a teacher again. There he was because of his efforts to overcome the Cold War victim of a smear campaign and got into professional difficulties. In 1959 he was appointed professor at the Humboldt University in East Berlin as a professor of Latin literature with special reference to Greek (philosophy he could as a non- Marxist, and because of the Dresdner experiences do not teach there). After the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, he had to exercise this work can continue, to move with his family from West to East Berlin. In 1965 he became Professor Emeritus.

In addition to numerous philological and philosophical writings published Schottlaender brilliant translations (very effective on stage Sophocles new translation, publication of a Petrarchan edition, etc.) and thorough confrontation with questions of Judaism and anti-Semitism. In his political essays and articles he published mainly in the west, he saw himself as a mediator between the systems. Due to its DDR - critical positions, he was under surveillance by the state security intensively. He inspired leading figures of the emerging East German opposition.

Schott lander son Rainer ( born September 16, 1949 ) was 1969 and 1970, along with his Mitkommilitonen Michael Müller, the initiator of several leafleting, who called at the Humboldt University to boycott the so-called social science lecture. This led to the largest manhunt actions of the Stasi (alias agitators ). He was taken after an escape attempt in custody, later ransomed by West Germany and is now an entertainer and an independent scholar.

Works

• Despite everything, a German, autobiography, Herder -Verlag 1986
• Followed Berliner Science, Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1988