Ludwig Landgrebe was an Austrian phenomenologist and Professor of philosophy. He is the grandfather of award-winning German actor Max Landgrebe.

Life

Landgrebe studied philosophy, history and geography in Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

. Influenced by Max Scheler

Max Scheler

Max Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology...

, he continued his studies in Freiburg. In 1923 Landgrebe became assistant to Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic...

 (1859-1938). After the approval of his doctoral dissertation, Landgrebe transferred to Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

 for his postdoctoral qualification under Oskar Kraus

Oskar Kraus

Oskar Kraus was a Czech philosopher, jurist.-Life:Oskar Kraus, who converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith, was the son of Hermann Kraus and Clara Reitler-Eidlitz...

. From 1939 he collaborated with Eugen Fink

Eugen Fink

Eugen Fink was a German philosopher.-Biography:Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in Germany. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a catholic priest. Fink attended a gymnasium in Konstanz where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory...

 at the Husserl-Archives

Higher Institute of Philosophy

The Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven was founded in 1889 by Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier to be a beacon of Neo-Thomist philosophy...

 in Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

. Landgrebe's wife, Ilse Maria Goldschmidt, was of Jewish ancestry and sister of the writer Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. In 1940 Landgrebe was deported to Belgium. He worked part-time as a merchant assistant in Hamburg.

In 1945 Landgrebe had his post-doctorate reapproved in Hamburg

University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...

, and he was made ordinary professor in 1947 in Kiel

University of Kiel

The University of Kiel is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today...

, where Hans Blumenberg

Hans Blumenberg

Hans Blumenberg was a German philosopher.He studied philosophy, Germanistics and classics and is considered to be one of the most important German philosophers of recent decades...

 was one of his students. In 1954 he transferred to Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, and become director of the Husserl-Archives there. Landgrebe is known as one of Husserl's closest associates, but also for his independent views relating to the subjects of history, religion and politics, as seen from the viewpoints of existentialist philosophy

Existentialism

Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...

 and metaphysics

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

. Metaphysics - Man's reflective remembrance, upon the whole of his being.

Works

• Wilhelm Diltheys Theorie der Geisteswissenschaften, Halle 1928 (Dissertation)
• Nennfunktion und Wortbedeutung. Eine Studie über Martys Sprachphilosophie, Halle 1923
• Was bedeutet uns heute Philosophie, Hamburg 1948 (2. Aufl. 1954)
• Phänomenologie und Metaphysik, Hamburg 1949 (Aufsatzsammlung)
• Philosophie der Gegenwart, Bonn 1952 (2. Aufl. Frankfurt/M 1957)
• Der Weg der Phänomenologie, Gütersloh 1963 (4. Aufl. 1978)
• Phänomenologie und Geschichte, Gütersloh 1968
• Über einige Grundfragen der Philosophie der Politik, Köln/Opladen 1969
• Faktizität und Individuation. Studien zu den Grundfragen der Phänomenologie, Hamburg 1982 (Bibliographie S. 157 - 162)

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