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Adolf Dyroff (born February 2, 1866 in Damm, † July 3, 1943 in Munich ) was a German philosopher.

Life
He was born in Damm, District Office Aschaffenburg, grew up in neighboring Aschaffenburg and studied from 1884 to 1888 in Würzburg and Bonn Classical Studies, German Studies , History , Art History and Philosophy. His two cousins ​​- cf. City and Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg, Heimatregister, D 1, Tab. 84 (Andreas Dyroff 1824-1878, father of Karl and Anton) u. Tab. 214 (Heinrich Dyroff 1834-1879, brother of Andreas and father of Adolf) - Karl and Anton were also professors who habilitated in Munich.

Dyroff received his doctorate in 1892 in Würzburg, then moved to the Humanistic High School of the city as a teacher and habilitated in 1899 in Munich. In 1901 he was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Freiburg and 1903 he followed the call to the University of Bonn. There he taught Catholic philosophy until 1934, in the years 1925 and 1926 he was rector of the faculty.

In the early 1920s, Dyroff decided to rebuild the university's main building, which had not been completely rebuilt after the devastating 1777 fire. For the Nazism, he was not tolerable as a deeply religious man and was compulsorily massacred in 1934. The NSDAP also prevented Dyroff from being awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft. In 1943 Adolf Dyroff died in Munich. In his birthplace Aschaffenburg dam and in Bonn, a street was named after him.

Dyroff has been a very active member of the Catholic Association KV since his student days. In Würzburg he was active in K.St.V. Normannia, in Munich in the KSSt.V. Alemannia, in whose commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary, he is also mentioned and pictured in 1906 (born 1885/86). In Bonn he became honorary philistine of the K.St.V. Arminia and K.St.V. Vandalia, all in KV. Since 1912 he was a member of the Academic-Scientific Association Renaissance.

Philosophy
Dyroff was considered a profound connoisseur of the history of philosophy and one of the most important Catholic thinkers in the first half of the 20th century. He saw his scientific life's task as seeing Western philosophy as a whole. He was probably the first to recognize the importance of Renaissance philosophy. That he tried to introduce the Catholic faith in modern philosophy, was from the Catholic side z. T. criticized. From his students, such as Heinrich Lützeler and Johannes Maria Verweyen, he was lovingly called Papa Dyroff. His most important pupils were Peter Wust and Theodor Steinbüchel. Also Martin Honecker and Erich Feldmann were his students.

Because he was convinced of the inner context of any culture, his research also included classical studies of antiquity, literature and the history of art and religion. He did not limit his activities to the university. In many lectures and newspaper contributions, he spread his ideas in public as long as possible.

Works

 * The Ethics of the Old Stoa (1897)


 * Democrit Studies (1899)


 * About the Existential Concept (1902)


 * Introduction to Psychology (1908)


 * Religion and morality (1925)


 * Reflections on History (1926)


 * On the scientific activity of German Catholics (Akademische Monatsblätter 1928)


 * On the Relationship of Medicine and Science in the Renaissance (1937)


 * The idea of ​​God among the European philosophers (1941)


 * Introduction to Philosophy (1950, posthumously)


 * Aesthetics of the active Spirit (1950 posthumous)

Literature

 * Winfried Stadtmüller: Dyroff, Adolf. In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 5. Teil (= Revocatio historiae. Band 6). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1998, ISBN 3-89498-055-9, S. 38ff.




 * Winfried Stadtmüller: Dyroff, Adolf . In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of the KV. Part 5 (= Revocatio historiae, Volume 6). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1998, ISBN 3-89498-055-9, p 38ff.


 * Vladimir Szylkarski:  Dyroff, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0, p 212 f. ( Digitized ).

Weblinks





 * Nachlass Adolf Dyroff in der ULB Bonn


 * Dyroff auf der Aschaffenburgseite