Background
Otto Bollnow was born on March 14, 1903, in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). He was the first of two sons of Otto Bollnow and Frida Bollnow.
Otto Bollnow
Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
The University of Göttingen where Otto Bollnow received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany that Otto Bollnow received in 1983.
Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
The University of Göttingen where Otto Bollnow received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany that Otto Bollnow received in 1983.
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-New-Beginning-Contributions-Anthropology/dp/0820701882/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(Following its publication in Germany in 1963, Otto Friedr...)
Following its publication in Germany in 1963, Otto Friedrich Bollnow's Human Space quickly became essential reading within a cross-disciplinary field of subject areas including architecture, anthropology, and philosophy. In this first English translation, Bollnow conceives the human experience of space not merely as a philosophical problem but also as an extension of his research into psychology, human behavior, and the conventional domains of architecture: living in a building, in an apartment, in a house. Human Space is a remarkable investigation of space as we experience it, by a man many consider to be the father of spatial and architectural anthropology.
https://www.amazon.com/Human-Space-Otto-Friedrich-Bollnow/dp/0907259359/?tag=2022091-20
2011
Otto Bollnow was born on March 14, 1903, in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). He was the first of two sons of Otto Bollnow and Frida Bollnow.
Otto Bollnow attended school in the town of Anklam. He also studied at the University of Göttingen where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1925. Bollnow completed his habilitation in 1931. In 1975 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Strasbourg.
Otto Bollnow started his career as a teacher in the Department of Philosophy and Education at the University of Göttingen in 1931. In 1939, he started to work as a professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Giessen. He held this post until 1946 when he took up the same post at the University of Mainz. In 1953, Bollnow started to work as a professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Tübingen and worked there until his retirement in 1970. He also worked as a professor at the University of Kiel.
Otto Bollnow wrote his first book Die Lebensphilosophie F. H. Jacobis in 1933. Later he wrote such books as Dilthey. Eine Einführung in seine Philosophie, Das Wesen der Stimmungen, Wesen und Wandel der Tugenden, and many others.
Otto Bollnow was a German philosopher, educator and writer who was famous as the author of more than 30 books and 250 articles on anthropology, ethics, philosophy of life, existential philosophy, hermeneutics. In 1980 he received the Lessing-Prize. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1983.
(Following its publication in Germany in 1963, Otto Friedr...)
2011Otto Bollnow’s central achievement lay in preserving, clarifying and carrying forward Dilthey’s philosophy of life and thereby inspiring another generation of Dilthey scholars. After the war, Bollnow encouraged the reissue and continuation of Dilthey’s Collected Works, which at the end of his life had reached twenty volumes, and actively supported a translation into English of substantial selections from Dilthey’s writings.
Based on the philosophy of life and phenomenology Bollnow dealt with existential philosophy and, among other things, wrote an introduction to this topic.
Otto Bollnow was a member of the Militant League for German Culture.
Otto Friedrich Bollnow married Ilse Klette in 1931. Ilse died in 1935. Later Bollnow married Ortrud Bürger. The marriage produced three children.
