| Code | DS/UK/430 |
| Dates | 17/05/1860-11/11/1930 |
| Person Name | Hensel; Paul (17/05/1860-11/11/1930); Prof.Dr. |
| Surname | Hensel |
| Forenames | Paul |
| Title | Prof.Dr. |
| Activity | Habilitation in Straßburg (1888); außerordentlichen Professor in Straßburg (1895); außerordentlicher Professor in Heidelberg (1898-); ordentlicher Professor für systematische Philosophie in Erlangen (1902-1928). Travelled to St. Louis (1904), Boston and Harvard University (1911); Co-Founder of the Kant Society for Nürnberg and Fürth (1922); chairman of the Society (1925-)
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| Relationships | Son of the landowner and entrepreneur Sebastian Hensel; grandson of the composer Fanny Mendelssohn and the painter Wilhelm Hensel, and a descendant of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn; brother of the mathematician Kurt Hensel ; brother of Lili du Bois-Reymond.
Married Käthe Rosenhayn (1861-1910) (1896); their son is Bruno Hensel (1899-1945). Married again Elisabeth Nelson, geb. Schemmann (1884-1954) (1917 ). She was first married to (1907-1912) the philosopher Leonard Nelson. [Gerhard Nelson (1909-1944) is Elisabeth and Leonard Nelson's son.] Paul's and Elisabeth's children are Fanny Kistner (1918-2006), a pianist, and and the historian Cecile Lowenthal-Hensel (* 1923). |
| History | Studied philosophy, history and classics in Freiburg (1885 dissertation); at Erlangen Hensel was the supervisor of Hans Reichenbach's dissertation on the theory of probability. |
| Source | Fritz Medicus: Paul Hensel, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), vol 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, p. 561 f.; Elisabeth Hensel, Paul Hensel. Sein Leben in seinen Briefen Societäts, Frankfurt 1937. Auch: Erlangen 1938 (DNB Leipzig vorhanden). Wieder: Wolfenbütteler Verlagsanstalt, 1947; Hermann Glockner: Paul Hensel, der Sokrates von Erlangen (Reihe: Akademische Vorträge und Abhandlungen, 36) Bouvier, Bonn 1972. <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hensel_(Philosoph)> [accessed 26/10/2010] |
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