Rosenzweig, Franz

Franz Rosenzweig
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Name	Rosenzweig, Franz Gender: M
Birthname	Franz Louis August Rosenzweig
born on	25 December 1886 at 06:15 (= 06:15 AM )
Place	Kassel, Germany, 51n19, 9e29
Timezone	LMT m9e29 (is local mean time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	03°25' 01°16 Asc. 09°06'

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Franz Rosenzweig

Biography

German Jewish theologian, philosopher, and translator, whose major work is The Star of Redemption (1921). It is a description of the relationships between God, humanity, and the world, as they are connected by creation, revelation and redemption. If one makes a diagram with God at the top, and the World and the Self below, the inter-relationships generate a Star of David map. He is critical of any attempt to replace actual human existence with an ideal. In Rosenzweig's scheme, revelation arises not in metaphysics but in the here and now. We are called to love God, and to do so is to return to the world, and that is redemption.

Rosenzweig, unimpressed with the impersonal learning of the academy, founded the House of Jewish Learning in Frankfurt in 1920, which sought to engage in dialogue with human beings rather than merely accumulate knowledge. The Lehrhaus, as it was known in Germany, produced many prominent Jewish intellectuals.

Rosenzweig suffered from the muscular degenerative disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). He died on the night of 10 December 1929, in Frankfurt, aged 42.

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Relationships

• associate relationship with Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen (born 6 July 1888)

• friend relationship with Buber, Martin (born 8 February 1878)

• friend relationship with Koch, Richard (born 3 September 1882)

• friend relationship with Strauss, Leo (born 20 September 1899)

• other kin relationship with Ehrenberg, Hans (born 4 June 1883). Notes: Cousins

Events

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1921 ("The Star of Redemption")

• Death by Disease 10 December 1929 (Lou Gehrig's Disease, age 42)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth record from Hesse Archives.

Categories

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Lou Gehrig's disease

• Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Philosopher/ Humanist

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Philosopher

• Vocation : Religion : Other Religion (Theologian)

• Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy

• Vocation : Writers : Translator

• Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator (The "Lehrhaus")