1. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy then pursued an academic career in Germany as a specialist in medieval law, which was disrupted by the rise of Nazism.
22 Facts About Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy is viewed as belonging to a group of thinkers who revived post-Nietzschean religious thought.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy's father, a scholarly man, was a banker and a member of the Berlin Stock Exchange.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was the only son among seven surviving children.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy remained a proponent of Christianity's foundational significance throughout the rest of his life.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy corresponded with Franz Rosenzweig and Hans Ehrenberg, regarding the relationship of man with God, as understood through Judaism and Christianity.
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In 1914 Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy visited Florence, Italy to conduct historical research.
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At the onset of World War I, the German Army drafted Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and stationed him at the Western Front, including 18 months at Verdun, until the war's end.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy returned to academia and started publishing his first noted works.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy did not return to his teaching post at the University of Leipzig.
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In 1923, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy received a second doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy then lectured at the Technical University of Darmstadt in the faculty of social science and social history until he was offered a job at the University of Breslau as a full professor of German legal history, a position he held from 1923 until January 30,1933.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy published his medieval study Konigshaus und Stamme in Deutschland zwischen 911 und 1250 in 1914, which he had written in Leipzig and was the source of recognition for his second doctorate.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy encountered strong opposition at Harvard University to the presentation of his ideas in social history and other topics, all of which were based on his Christian faith.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy often attacked non-religious academic thinking, a teaching tradition assumed by the Harvard faculty to be a prerequisite for high scholarship.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy taught at Dartmouth until his retirement in 1957.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy then founded Camp William James in Tunbridge, Vermont as a prototype for a national peacetime volunteer labor service.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy published Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man in 1938, an English-language revision of his earlier book on revolutions.
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Whereas Soziologie is unavailable in English, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy's Speech and Reality is an English-language introduction to that work.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was the widow of Helmuth James von Moltke, who had opposed National Socialism and was executed by the Nazis.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy remained active in lecturing and writing until his final years.
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in 1958 at the University of Munster.