Biography:Jacob Loewenberg
Jacob Loewenberg (February 2, 1882 – March 27, 1969) was a Latvian-American philosopher.[1]
Life and career
Loewenberg was born in Tukums, Russian Empire (present-day Latvia) and moved to Riga at age 13. Fearing conscription by the Russian Army, he made his way to Boston in 1904 by way of Germany and England . Loewenberg was accepted into Harvard College upon arrival and began studying philosophy, earning a bachelor's degree in 1908, a master's degree in 1909, and a doctorate in 1911 (with a thesis under the title The Genesis of Hegel's Dialectical Method). At Harvard, he was influenced by George Santayana.[2] He taught German and Philosophy at Wellesley College before taking an appointment in the philosophy department at University of California, Berkeley in 1915. He became a full professor in 1925 and served as department chair from 1935 to 1941. In 1950, he refused to sign a loyalty oath demanded by the University of California Board of Regents and was severed from the University.[3] The California Supreme Court restored his position, and he retired as Professor Emeritus in 1952. In 1962, Loewenberg was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree by the University.
Selected works
- "Problematic Realism" in Contemporary American Philosophy (1930)
- Dialogues from Delphi (1949)
- Carus Lectures, Reason and the Nature of Things (1959)
- Hegel's Phenomenology: Dialogues on the Life of the Mind (1965)
- Thrice-born: Selected Memories of an American Immigrant (1968)
References
- ↑ Staff report (March 30, 1969). Obituary. Chicago Tribune
- ↑ John R. Shook (ed.), The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Continuum, 2005, p. 1499.
- ↑ Staff report (August 23, 1950). UC Loyalty Oath Settlement Near: Regents Expected to Decide Fate of Nonsigners Friday. Los Angeles Times
External links
- Jacob Loewenberg, Philosophy: Berkeley via University of California, Berkeley
- J. Lowenberg, The Life of Georg Frederich Wilhelm Hegel
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- Works by Jacob Loewenberg at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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