14 Facts About Constantin Brunner

Constantin Brunner was the pen-name of the German Jewish philosopher Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer.

Constantin Brunner was born in Altona on 27 August 1862.

Constantin Brunner came from a prominent Jewish family that had lived in the vicinity of Hamburg for generations; his grandfather, Akiba Wertheimer, was chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein.

Constantin Brunner established himself as a literary critic, and enjoyed a wide celebrity.

Constantin Brunner lived in Germany until 1933, when, with the rise to power of the Nazi party, he moved to The Hague, where he died on 27 August 1937.

Central to Constantin Brunner's theory is the characterization of three different modes of mental activity:.

Constantin Brunner's work Die Lehre von den Geistigen und vom Volke is a survey of the whole of human intellectual history seen from the point of view of this doctrine.

Constantin Brunner contends that Judaism is essentially anti-religious, stating in Our Christ that "Judaism as a spiritual doctrine is the opposite of religion and a protest against it", and culminates his argument with his own translation of the Shema: "Hear O Israel, Being is our god, Being is one".

For Constantin Brunner, Jesus was both a mystic and a genius, whereas Christian religion is largely a distortion of his thought.

Constantin Brunner maintains that the foundation of all science is the doctrine of universal all-motion.

Constantin Brunner's position is that the fixity of the genus is a scientific principle that needs to be preserved if meaningful work is to be undertaken with biological systems.

Constantin Brunner argued that because the theory of evolution undermined the notion of genus, it would be detrimental to practical scientific endeavor.

Constantin Brunner corresponded with Walther Rathenau, Martin Buber, Gustav Landauer and Lou Andreas-Salome.

Constantin Brunner attracted a large and devoted following among the Jewish youth in Czernowitz.