Bernhard Münz

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Bernhard Münz
Born(1856-02-01)1 February 1856
Leipnik, Austrian Empire
Died17 December 1919(1919-12-17) (aged 63)
Vienna, First Austrian Republic
Spouse
Amalie Müller
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(m. 1888)​
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
University of Innsbruck
University of Munich
ThesisDie platonische Ideenlehre (1877)
Doctoral advisorFranz Brentano
LanguageGerman

Bernhard Münz (1 February 1856 – 17 December 1919) was an Austrian writer, philosopher, and librarian.

Biography[edit]

He was born in Leipnik (now Lipník, Czech Republic) to Jewish parents Johanna (née Weinreb) and Jakob Münz.[1] His younger brother was journalist Sigmund Münz [de].[2]

Münz studied classical philology and philosophy at the Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck, and Munich, completing a Ph.D. at the former in 1877 under the supervision of Franz Brentano.[3] After working briefly at the university library in Graz, he became in 1889 amanuensis in the library of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, and succeeded Samuel Hammerschlag as its director in 1900.[2]

He wrote magazine articles for various publications, including Ost und West, the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, the Neue Freie Presse, and Deutschland.[1] He promoted Salomon Wininger's project of compiling a Jewish national biography and was on the editorial board from 1915; the first volume appeared in 1925. He was vice president of the journalists' and writers' association Concordia and did much to build up the association's charitable work for widows and orphans.[2]

Publications[edit]

Title page of Briefe von und über Jakob Frohschammer
  • Die Keime der Erkenntnisstheorie in der vorsophistischen Periode der griechischen Philosophie. Vienna: C. Konegen. 1880. hdl:2027/mdp.39015068014144.
  • Die Erkenntniss- und Sensationstheorie des Protagoras. Vienna: C. Konegen. 1880.
  • Die Vorsokratische Ethik. Halle. 1882.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Protagoras und Kein Ende. Halle. 1883.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Lebens- und Weltfragen. Vienna: C. Konegen. 1886.
  • Jakob Frohschammer, der Philosoph der Weltphantasie. Breslau: S. Schottlaender. 1894.
  • Briefe von und über Jakob Frohschammer. Leipzig: Georg Heinrich Meyer. 1897.
  • P. Simon Rettenbacher. Vienna. 1898.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Adolph Pichler. Leipzig: Baum. 1899.
  • Moriz Lazarus. Berlin: F. Dümmler. 1900.
  • Hieronymus Lorm. Vienna. 1901.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • M. E. delle Grazie als Dichterin und Denkerin. Vienna: W. Braumüller. 1902.
  • Literarische Physiognomien. Vienna: W. Braumüller. 1903.
  • Goethe als Erzieher. Vienna: W. Braumüller. 1904.
  • Hebbel als Denker. Munich: Georg Müller. 1913 [1907].
  • Ibsen als Erzieher. Leipzig: Xenien. 1908.
  • Shakespeare als Philosoph. Halle: Niemeyer. 1918.

References[edit]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore (1905). "Münz, Bernhard". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 112.

  1. ^ a b Heuer, Renate, ed. (2009). "Münz, Bernhard". Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren. Vol. 17. De Gruyter. pp. 223–227. ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7.
  2. ^ a b c "Münz, Bernhard (1856-1919), Bibliothekar und Philosoph". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 6, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7, p. 436 f. (Direct links to "p. 436", "p. 437")
  3. ^  Singer, Isidore (1905). "Münz, Bernhard". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 112.
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