Johannes Wilhelm Cornelius (September 27, 1863 – August 23, 1947) was a German neo-Kantian philosopher.
Biography
Born in Munich, he originally studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1886, before turning to philosophy. In 1894, he habilitated in philosophy and subsequently held a post in philosophy at the University of Munich (until 1903 as a Privatdozent). In 1910, Cornelius moved as a full professor to the Akademie für Sozialwissenschaften, which four years later would become a department of the newly founded University of Frankfurt. Among his students in Frankfurt were Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.
His work was influenced by psychologist Max Wertheimer.[1]
Cornelius, who was a consistent opponent of World War I, joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany(SPD) in 1918 and in the 1920s, he promoted the plan of a European confederation. He supported the idea of a League of Nations in his paper Völkerbund und Dauerfriede (1919).
Hans Cornelius married Emilie (Mia) von Dessauer (1862-1946), a daughter of Heinrich von Dessauer (1830-1879), a physician and founder of the German hospital in Valparaiso, in 1887; Ingeborg Karlson (1894-1924), from Liljeholmen near Stockholm, in 1915, in his second marriage; and Friedrike Rosenthal, widowed Reissner (1886-1939), in 1925, in her third marriage. In 1941 he entered into a fourth marriage with Hedwig Krämer, widowed Drechsel (* 1896). Four children came from the 1st marriage: the later geologist Hans Peter Cornelius, Wolfgang (* 1890), Friedrich (1893-1976) and Evi (* 1894). The 2nd marriage resulted in two sons, Yngor [Yngve] (* 1921) and Hans Wolfgang Amadeus (1923-2013).
Cornelius retired in 1928. He died in 1947 in Gräfelfing.
References
- ^ Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, Routledge, 2017, ch. "Emergence of Gestalt Theory".
External links
- Hans Cornelius from philolex (in German)
- Matthias Wolfes (1999). "Cornelius, Hans (Johannes Wilhelm)". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 16. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 326–331. ISBN 3-88309-079-4.