Education
He studied philosophy, chemistry and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg, and obtained his doctorate from the University of Marburg.
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He studied philosophy, chemistry and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg, and obtained his doctorate from the University of Marburg.
Later he worked as a journalist in Berlin, where he translated works of Tolstoy, Unamuno and Alexander Herzen. Additionally, with Kurt Wildhagen (1871-1949), he edited works by Turgenev, Gogol and two volumes of Ernst Cassirer"s edition of Kant"s collected writings. During the 1920s, he worked as a correspondent for the Argentine newspaper Louisiana Nación.
The other two being physicist Albert Einstein and astronomer Wilhelm Julius Foerster.
Kritik des Marxismus (Critique of Marxism) in: Die Aktion 1911, Spalte 1029-1033.
From a philosophical standpoint, Buek was an advocate of Neo-Kantianism, and as a young man was a disciple of Marburg philosopher Hermann Cohen (1848-1918). Die Atomistik und Faradays Begriff der Materie (Atomism and Faraday"s concept of matter) in: Archiv für die Geschichte der Philosophie 18: 1904, 65-139. Als Separatdruck auch: Reimer, Berlin 1905.