Heinz Wismann - Salon du livre de Paris - 24 mars 2013

Heinz Wismann (born

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart bec ...

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

) is a Franco-German

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

and philosopher.

Biography

Heinz Wismann is the son of Heinz Wismann (1897-1945), an art historian, who was director of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda and vice-president of the Chamber of Literature of the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

from 1935 to 1937. As a

Hellenist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

, Heinz Wismann has long been associated with the

Lille school Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord ...

. Director of Emeritus Studies at

Georg Simmel Georg Simmel (; ; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential in the field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach ...

centre of the

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

(EHESS), his research focuses on

hermeneutics Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of Biblical hermeneutics, biblical texts, wisdom literature, and Philosophy, philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretative principles ...

and the history of German thought. He directed the "Passages" collection of the

Éditions du Cerf ''Éditions du Cerf'' (French: "Editions of the Deer") is a French publishing house specializing in religious books. It was founded in 1929, and operated by the Dominican Order. The name is a reference to Psalm 42 (41): As the hart panteth ...

from 1986 to 2007. The title was an homage to the writer

Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewi ...

whom he introduced to France. A European spirit, a builder of peace between peoples, he reflected a great deal on languages, in the "beyond" of languages, on European traditions and cultures, in order to maintain their difficult cohesion between them, while preserving their differences and their singularities, despite their contradictions. He is a friend of

Jean Bollack Jean Bollack (15 March 1923 – 4 December 2012) was a French philosopher, philologist and literary critic. Biography He first studied classical philology at the University of Basel, among others with and Albert Béguin, and from 1945 at th ...

and philosopher with whom he has worked extensively in the fields of philology and

Hellenism Hellenism may refer to: Ancient Greece * Hellenistic period, the period between the death of Alexander the Great and the annexation of the classical Greek heartlands by Rome ** Hellenistic Greece, Greece in the Hellenistic period ** Hellenisti ...

Controversy

On March 21, 2019, Heinz Wismann stated on France Culture that triggering the anger of certain Esperantists believing that the remarks which he made are false..

References

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