William S. Haas
William S. Haas[1] (13 February 1883 – 3 January 1956) was a German-American philosopher, psychologist, and sociologist.
Biography
William Haas was born in Nuremberg. He studied philosophy, psychology and sociology in Berlin, Munich and Vienna. He received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1910. The title of his dissertation was Über Echtheit und Unechtheit von Gefühlen ("On the genuineness and inauthenticity of feelings"). In 1919 he habilitated at the University of Cologne.
Haas was a private lecturer in social sciences at the University of Cologne from 1920 to 1923 and then taught philosophy, psychology and sociology at the Technical University of Berlin until his forced emigration as a Jew in 1933, from 1927 as an associate professor. In addition, he was director of studies at the German Academy for Politics in Berlin. After 1934 he taught at the University of Tehran.
William Haas lived in the United States from 1940 until his death. He taught at the University of Colorado Denver until 1942 and at the Near and Middle East Institute at Columbia University in New York from 1950 to 1953.
Haas died of a heart attack in his home in New York City, and was buried at the Woodlawn cemetery in the Bronx.[2]
Works
- Die psychische Dingwelt (1921)
- Kraft und Erscheinung. Grundriss einer Dynamik des Psychischen (1922)
- What is European civilization? And what is its future? (1929)
- Iran (1946; 1956; 1966)
- "The March of Philosophy of History and Its Crucial Problem Today". In: The Philosophical Review, Vol. LVIII (1949)
- The Destiny of the Mind. East and West (1956)
- Östliches und westliches Denken (1967; Rowohlts deutsche Enzyklopädie, 246/247)
Notes
References
- Kaiser-El-Safti, Margret (2019). "Über William Haas: Östliches und westliches Denken in einer Kulturpsychologie". In: Hannes Stubbe, ed., 100 Jahre Psychologie an der Universität zu Köln. Eine Festschrift. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, pp. 64–82.
- May, Ulrike (2019). "Willy Haas: Ein junger Münchner Philosoph in Analyse bei Freud". In: Luzifer-Amor 63 (2019), pp. 35–57.
- Wittebur, Klemens (1991). Die Deutsche Soziologie im Exil. 1933–1945. Dissertation. Lit, Münster, Hamburg, p. 29.
External links
- 1883 births
- 1956 deaths
- 20th-century German philosophers
- Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
- Columbia University faculty
- German psychologists
- German sociologists
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
- Technical University of Berlin faculty
- University of Cologne alumni
- University of Cologne faculty
- University of Colorado Denver faculty
- Writers from Nuremberg
