| Ref No | WIA GC/28187 |
| Title | Eucken, Rudolf to [?] 14/05/1909 |
| Writer | Eucken, Rudolf |
| Place1 | Jena |
| Recipient | [no name supplied] |
| Institution2 | Senator |
| Place2 | [Hamburg] |
| Date | 14/05/1909 |
| DateNote | in 'Eucken' file |
| Format | typescript |
| Contents | thanks him for a letter; is grateful for being permitted to summarize his views about increasing the number of professorships in Hamburg; the philosophy lectures are very popular; approves of plans of establishing a chair of philosophy, with lectures in the history of philosophy, logics, psychology, ethics, history of pedagogics; it is of paramount importance to establish a university in Hamburg; he has seen for himself who important a university is for the life of a city, when he worked in Basle with Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche; there is a process of mutual enrichment, cross-fertilization of ideas between academe and the business world; hopes that the citizens of Hamburg will opt for establishing a university which will be of great importance not only for Hamburg but for the cultural life of Germany |
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