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A large-scale thinker<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1996/96.07.14.html]:''He combined a comparative procedure, drawing on diverse [[ethnological]] material for the study of social and religious matters in the ancient world with a more phenomenological or hermeneutic procedure, centered on [[social psychology]] and [[cultural history]].''</ref>, he was influential in areas such as concept formation in religion.<ref>See Antje Wessels, ''Zur Rezeption von Hermann Useners Lehre von der religiösen Begriffsbildung''.</ref>, as well as in scholarship and through his students.<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-43.html]:''...Hermann Usener at Bonn, who combined comparative ethnological analysis with phenomenological hermeneutics, trained an impressive list of pupils''.</ref><ref>[[Camille Paglia]][http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume13/13.3/Camille/Paglia.htm] identifies a ''150-year-long dynasty of German scholars following the idealizing [[Winckelmann]], such as Hermann Usener, [[Werner Jaeger]], and [[Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]], who bitterly warred over the character and methodology of classical studies.''</ref> One such was [[Friedrich Nietzche]]: after initial support<ref>[http://www.philosophenlexikon.de/niet-bas.htm] (German)</ref>, Usener wrote him off as a scholar after ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]]'' was published. |
A large-scale thinker<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1996/96.07.14.html]:''He combined a comparative procedure, drawing on diverse [[ethnological]] material for the study of social and religious matters in the ancient world with a more phenomenological or hermeneutic procedure, centered on [[social psychology]] and [[cultural history]].''</ref>, he was influential in areas such as concept formation in religion.<ref>See Antje Wessels, ''Zur Rezeption von Hermann Useners Lehre von der religiösen Begriffsbildung''.</ref>, as well as in scholarship and through his students.<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-43.html]:''...Hermann Usener at Bonn, who combined comparative ethnological analysis with phenomenological hermeneutics, trained an impressive list of pupils''.</ref><ref>[[Camille Paglia]][http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume13/13.3/Camille/Paglia.htm] identifies a ''150-year-long dynasty of German scholars following the idealizing [[Winckelmann]], such as Hermann Usener, [[Werner Jaeger]], and [[Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]], who bitterly warred over the character and methodology of classical studies.''</ref> One such was [[Friedrich Nietzche]]: after initial support<ref>[http://www.philosophenlexikon.de/niet-bas.htm] (German)</ref>, Usener wrote him off as a scholar after ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]]'' was published. |
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His students included [[Hermann Diels]]<ref>[http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2005/baltussen1.pdf PDF], p.4 and later; [http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/archives/spr2004/entries/doxography-ancient/].</ref>, [[Paul Natorp]]<ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natorp/]</ref>, [[Hans Lietzmann]]<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/publics/new/BAUERAP2.htm]</ref>, [[Albrecht Dieterich]] and [[Richard Reitzenstein]]<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-43.html]</ref>, and [[Aby Warburg]]<ref>[http://members.chello.nl/j.seegers1/e-files/warburg.html], [http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/katotk/awiaa2.html].</ref> |
His students included [[Hermann Diels]]<ref>[http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2005/baltussen1.pdf PDF], p.4 and later; [http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/archives/spr2004/entries/doxography-ancient/].</ref>, [[Paul Natorp]]<ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natorp/]</ref>, [[Hans Lietzmann]]<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/publics/new/BAUERAP2.htm]</ref>, [[Albrecht Dieterich]] and [[Richard Reitzenstein]]<ref>[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-02-43.html]</ref>, and [[Aby Warburg]]<ref>[http://members.chello.nl/j.seegers1/e-files/warburg.html], [http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/katotk/awiaa2.html].[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-01-18.html]: ''Critics have stressed the importance of Warburg's professor Herman Usener, the great classical philologist and scholar of comparative religion, whose Götternamen investigated the etymologies of deities' names in order to shed light on the changing psychology of religious beliefs; Warburg's [[iconological]] project, with its ambition to illuminate historical psychology, strives for an analogous goal. ''</ref> |
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Hermann Karl Usener (23 October1834-1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion.
Life
He became professor at the University of Bonn[1]. The Bonn School of classical philology was led by Usener with Franz Buecheler.
He was born at Weilburg and educated at its Gymnasium. From 1853 he studied at Heidelberg, Munich, Göttingen and Bonn. In 1858 he had a teaching position at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin.[2]
Works
His works include:
- Analecta Theophrastea (1858 dissertation at Bonn)
- Alexandri Aphrodisiensis problematorum lib. III. et IV. (1859)
- Götternamen: Versuch einer Lehre von der Religiösen Begriffsbildung
- Scholia in Lucani bellum civile (1869)
- Anecdoton Holderi (1877)
- Legenden der heiligen Pelagia (1879)
- De Stephano Alexandrino (1880)
- Jacob Bernays, Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1885) editor
- Acta S. Marinae et S. Christophori (1886)
- Epicurea (1887)
- Altgriechischer Versbau (1887)
- Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1889)
- Die Sintfluthsagen untersucht (1899)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus edition, begun 1904, with Ludwig Radermacher
- Vorträge und Aufsätze, 1907.
Influence
A large-scale thinker[3], he was influential in areas such as concept formation in religion.[4], as well as in scholarship and through his students.[5][6] One such was Friedrich Nietzche: after initial support[7], Usener wrote him off as a scholar after The Birth of Tragedy was published.
His students included Hermann Diels[8], Paul Natorp[9], Hans Lietzmann[10], Albrecht Dieterich and Richard Reitzenstein[11], and Aby Warburg[12]
Reference
- Roland Kany, Hermann Usener as Historian of Religion. In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 6 (2004) S. 159-176.
Notes
- ^ 1866; he was Professor 1861 to 1863 at the University of Bern, then at the University of Greifswald.
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]:He combined a comparative procedure, drawing on diverse ethnological material for the study of social and religious matters in the ancient world with a more phenomenological or hermeneutic procedure, centered on social psychology and cultural history.
- ^ See Antje Wessels, Zur Rezeption von Hermann Useners Lehre von der religiösen Begriffsbildung.
- ^ [3]:...Hermann Usener at Bonn, who combined comparative ethnological analysis with phenomenological hermeneutics, trained an impressive list of pupils.
- ^ Camille Paglia[4] identifies a 150-year-long dynasty of German scholars following the idealizing Winckelmann, such as Hermann Usener, Werner Jaeger, and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who bitterly warred over the character and methodology of classical studies.
- ^ [5] (German)
- ^ PDF, p.4 and later; [6].
- ^ [7]
- ^ [8]
- ^ [9]
- ^ [10], [11].[12]: Critics have stressed the importance of Warburg's professor Herman Usener, the great classical philologist and scholar of comparative religion, whose Götternamen investigated the etymologies of deities' names in order to shed light on the changing psychology of religious beliefs; Warburg's iconological project, with its ambition to illuminate historical psychology, strives for an analogous goal.