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Siegfried Behn (born June 3, 1884 in Hamburg, † November 27, 1970 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg) was a German philosopher and psychologist and worked as a lecturer and professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn and at the University of Bonn, Bonn.

Life
Behn attended from 1897 to 1903 high schools in Hamburg and Worms, from 1903 to 1908 followed the study of philosophy, psychology and other subjects in Munich and Heidelberg, which he completed in 1908 with a doctorate. From 1908 to 1913 he undertook further studies and received in 1913 the teaching authority (venia legendi) for philosophy and psychology in Bonn.

From 1913-1922 he was a lecturer in philosophy in Bonn, from 1922 to 1933 associate professor of philosophy and at times a lecturer, then professor of philosophy at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn, from 1931 full professor of philosophy with special attention to experimental pedagogy at the University of Bonn, where from 1937 to 1949 he held the post of Full Professor of Philosophy and Psychology. He was retired on October 18, 1949

Work
As aspects of his work can be mentioned: Further, his investigations into five levels of emphasis in poems are of interest for Quantitative Linguistics, as they can be interpreted as expressions of a language law, which among other things controls the word lengths (law of the distribution of word lengths) in texts.
 * In his experimental investigations into the rhythm of literary texts, he came across an early context that was theoretically derived and verified in Quantitative Linguistics later than Menzerath-Altmann-Gesetz. He found that lines with more syllables are spoken relatively shorter than lines with fewer syllables, so that a balancing of the speech duration takes place between lines of different length.
 * In May 1949, Behn took over the leadership of the News Commission, which had to investigate the behavior of university members in the time of National Socialism.

Books

 * Der deutsche Rhythmus und sein eigenes Gesetz. Eine experimentelle Untersuchung. Straßburg: Trübner 1912
 * Rhythmus und Ausdruck in deutscher Kunstsprache. Bonn: Verlag von Friedrich Cohn 1921
 * Kritik der pädagogischen Erkenntnis. Bonn: F. Cohen 1923
 * Die Wahrheit im Wandel der Weltanschauung: Eine kritische Geschichte der metaphysischen Philosophie. Berlin : F. Dümmlers Verl. 1924
 * Romantische oder klassische Logik? Vergleichende Dialektik des antinom. Widerspruches. Münster i. W.: Aschendorffsche Verlh. 1925
 * Sein und Sollen: Eine metaphysische Begründung der Ethik. Berlin: F. Dümmlers Verl. 1927; Bonn: Buchgemeinde 1931
 * Erzieherische Ideale: Die „Kritik“ der pädagogischen Erkenntnis. Bonn: F. Cohen 1927
 * Allgemeine Geschichte der Pädagogik in problementwickelnder Darstellung. Paderborn: F. Schöningh Band 1 1928; Band 2 1929
 * Philosophie der Werte als Grundwissenschaft der pädagogischen Zieltheorie. München: Verlag J. Kösel & F. Pustet 1930
 * Einleitung in die Metaphysik. Freiburg: Herder 1933
 * Das Ethos der Gegenwart. Bonn: Hanstein 1933/34
 * Der ewige Jude: Eine Legende. Kempen-Niederrhein: Thomas-Verlag 1947
 * Ethik: Ein Repetitorium. Bonn: Hanstein 1948
 * Kritik der Erkenntnis. Bonn: Hanstein 1949
 * Allgemeine Geschichte der Pädagogik in problementwickelnder Darstellung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftl. Buchgesellschaft; Paderborn: Schöningh, 1961
 * Schönheit und Magie. Ratingen: Henn 1964

Literature

 * Reichshandbuch der deutschen Gesellschaft – Das Handbuch der Persönlichkeiten in Wort und Bild. Erster Band, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
 * Karl-Heinz Best: Siegfried Behn (1884–1970). In: Glottometrics. 13, 2006, Seite 85–88 (PDF ram-verlag.eu).. (Wiederabdruck in: Karl-Heinz Best (Hrsg.): Studien zur Geschichte der Quantitativen Linguistik. Band 1. RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, Seite 21–25. ISBN 978-3-942303-30-9.) Der Beitrag behandelt Behns Arbeiten, die für die Quantitative Linguistik/Quantitative Literaturwissenschaft von Interesse sind. Er beruht des Weiteren auf Informationen der Universität Bonn und des Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikons.
 * Gunnar Anger: Behn, Siegfried, in: BBKL Bd. XXVI (2006) Sp. 135–141

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