Gunnar Aspelin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish Professor of Philosophy/Lund University/Sweden
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Place of Birth: Simrishamn Municipality, SkĂĄne County, Sweden
About Gunnar Aspelin
- Gunnar Aspelin (23 September 1898, in Södra Mellby, Kristianstads län – 29 August 1977), was a Swedish professor of philosophy at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.Prof.
- Aspelin was the son of the artist Karl Aspelin (1857–1932) and his wife Ellen Bergh.
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- Aspelin married in 1923 with Dagmar Scherstén, daughter of the physician Frithiof Scherstén and Ida Schröder.
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- Aspelin was the father of Herbert Aspelin, the researcher in comparative literature Kurt Aspelin, the lawspeaker Erland Aspelin, the teacher Marianne Aspelin and the artist Gert Aspelin.Prof.
- Aspelin received his doctorate at Lund University in 1925 on the dissertation Hegels praktiska filosofi under ĂĄren 1800-1803 ("The practical philosophy of Hegel during the years 1800-1803").
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- Aspelin became a docent in Practical Philosophy at Lund University.
- In his dissertation, as well as in following works, he had a marxist view of history.In 1936 he was named a Professor at the University of Gothenburg, and in 1949 he became a Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University.
- In 1953 he co-founded the Hans Larsson Society, and was its first chair.
- In 1968 Prof.
- Aspelin published his memoirs Lek och allvar ("Play and seriousness").A common thread in Prof.
- Aspelin's research was the relationship between the individual and the collective.
- He primarily focused on the philosophers Hans Larsson, John Locke, Karl Marx, Hegel, Bertrand Russel and Ralph Cudworth.
- During his later years he became interest in the ideas of the medieval age, and also conducted research in the fields of history of ideas and sociology.
- In 1958 he published the work Tankens vägar ("The paths of thought"), which is a survey of the history of philosophy in Europe.
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