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 'Emil Utitz' born May 27, 1883 in Roztoky,Czech Republic, died November 2, 1956 in Jena ,Germany was a German philosopher, psychology and aestheticist.

Life
Utiz was born to Gotthold Utitz, a manufacturer of leather goods in Prague, and his wife, Philippine, nee Taussig. He was of Jewish descent.

From 1902 to 1906, Utitz studied law, archeology, art, philosophy and psychology at the universities in  Munich,  Leipzig and  Prague. He was awarded a PhD in 1906 at the University of Prague by Christian von Ehrenfels. He was a student and follower Franz Brentanos, and in 1910 to a doctorate at the University of Rostock with Franz Erhardt.

Utitz was, from 1910 to 1916 ,associate professor of philosophy at the University of Rostock. From 1916 to 1921 where he held a "titular" professorship there,and from 1919 this included teaching aesthetics and psychology. From 1921 to 1924 Utitz hed the position of associate professor of philosophy. From 1925 to 1933 Utitz was full professor of philosophy at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and from 1934 to 1939 he held a professorship of philosophy at the German University of Prague.

On April 29, 1933, he was temporarily granted leave, but  on Sept 23 of the same year, following Item 3 of the National-socialist Employment Laws, placed on permanent  leave. After this sudden and unlawful firing from the service of the university, he returned to Prague, where he, until the National-Socialist takeover of Czechoslovakia, he was part of a literary circle that was led by the writing couple, Gertrude and Johannes Urzidil. This was sometimes called the Prague circle and was the circle around Kafka. From 1934-1939 Utitz was full professor at the University of Prague.

Utitz and his wife Ottilie, born Schwarzkopf, were of the Jewish faith, before joining the Evangelist Church. In July of 1942, Utitz deported from Prague to the Theresienstadt   Since, together with Leo Baeck, he was among the prominent prisoners, he was appointed to director of the library. Simultaneously, he was deputy director of 'freetime' or leisure. Utitz and Baeck held many lectures on varying themes. Utitz' first lecture was held on Nov. 24, 1942 on the theme 'The Hygiene of the Soul in Theresienstadt.' Utitz and Baeck survived the horror of the concentration camp life, and later wrote books about it. Utitz wrote a book in Czechoslovakian that came out in Prague in 1947. (Psychology of Life in TK2) In this he wrote, among other things, that there was, in Terezin, a scholarly gathering that met twice a month on Thursdays, and whose numbers were very limited.)

From 1945 Utitz again taught at his old university in Prague. He died in 1956 in Jena.

Literature

 * Reinhard Mehring:The concentration camp as an ethical experience. To Characterology Emil Utitz.In: German Journal of Philosophy. Volume 51st 2003rd P. 761-775.
 * Hyndráková, Anna / Krejčová, Helena / Svobodová, Jana:celebrities in the ghetto Theresienstadt 1942-1945. Documents, (tschech. Original: prominenti v ghettu Terezín 1942-1945. Dokumenty, Praha 1996.)