{{Short description|German philosopher (1945–2022)}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = Professor<!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC --> | name = Walter Jaeschke | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = 20 September 1945 | birth_place = Amberg, Germany | death_date = 14 July 2022 | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = | alma_mater = Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. phil.)<br>Ruhr-Universität Bochum (habil.) | citizenship = | other_names = | occupation = Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Hegel-Archiv | period = | known_for = | title = | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | education = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | thesis2_title = Die Vernunft in der Religion. Studien zur Grundlegung der Religionsphilosophie Hegels | thesis1_title = Die Suche nach den eschatologischen Wurzeln der Geschichtsphilosophie. Eine historische Kritik der Säkularisierungsthese | thesis1_url = | thesis2_url = | thesis1_year = 1976 | thesis2_year = 1986 | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = Philosophy | sub_discipline = | workplaces = Ruhr-Universität Bochum, German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, The Institute of Philosophy at The Free University of Berlin | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }}
'''Walter Jaeschke''' (20 September 1945 – 14 July 2022) was a German philosopher, alongside Georg Lasson and Johannes Hofmeister was one the biggest editors and commentators of classical German philosophers, especially Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He is known in particular for his scholarship on Hegel's philosophy of religion.<ref name=":0">"In memoriam: Prof. Walter Jaeschke." HegelPD. 22 July 2022. https://www.hegelpd.it/hegel/in-memoriam-prof-walter-jaeschke/</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web|title= Genaues Lesen der philosophischen Klassik ist selbst eine Form von Philosophie – eine Würdigung zum Tod von Walter Jaeschke|author=Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/philosoph-walter-jaeschke-ist-tot-ohne-selberlesen-kein-selberdenken-18187014.html|website=faz.net|date=20 July 2022 |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|access-date=2023-06-17}}</ref>
== Life and works == Educated at Freie Universität Berlin and at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he studied philosophy, history of religion, and sinology. Jaeschke earned his doctorate in 1976 with the dissertation ''Die Suche nach den eschatologischen Wurzeln der Geschichtsphilosophie. Eine historische Kritik der Säkularisierungsthese''<ref>''The Search for the Eschatological Roots of the Philosophy of History: A Historical Critique of the Secularization Thesis''</ref> at the Free University of Berlin. His habilitation took place a decade later at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum with the study ''Die Vernunft in der Religion. Studien zur Grundlegung der Religionsphilosophie Hegels''<ref>''Reason in Religion: Studies on the Foundations of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion''</ref> (Stuttgart 1986).
From 1974 to 1989, Jaeschke worked as a research associate at the Hegel Archives of the Ruhr-Universität, and from 1989 to 1998, he worked as a research associate at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He was also an extraordinary professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. From 1998 until his retirement in 2010, he worked as a professor of philosophy with a special focus on German Idealism at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, as well as the director of the Hegel Archive there, where the critical edition of Hegel's works is being developed. In 2014, he was elected as a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.<ref>[https://idw-online.de/de/news588537 Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste nimmt 17 neue Mitglieder auf.] Pressrelease, 22 may 2014, Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de).</ref>
He directed the critical ''Gesammelte Werke'' edition of the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He also co-directed critical editions of the works of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Works == * (1976). ''Die Suche nach den eschatologischen Wurzeln der Geschichtsphilosophie. Eine historische Kritik der Säkularisierungsthese'' [The search for the eschatological roots of the philosophy of history. A historical critique of the secularisation thesis]. Munich: Kaiser, {{ISBN|3-459-01067-3}}. * (1983). ''Die Religionsphilosophie Hegels'' [Hegel's philosophy of religion]. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, {{ISBN|3-534-07007-0}} (Japanese translation 1990). * (1986). ''Die Vernunft in der Religion. Studien zur Grundlegung der Religionsphilosophie Hegels'' [Reason in religion. Studies on the foundations of Hegel's philosophy of religion]. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, {{ISBN|3-7728-1188-4}} (English translation 1990, see below). * (2003). ''Hegel-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Schule'' [Companion on Hegel. Life – Work – School]. Stuttgart: Metzler, {{ISBN|3-476-01705-2}} (new editions 2010 and 2016; Japanese translation 2007). * with Andreas Arndt (2012). ''Die klassische deutsche Philosophie nach Kant. Systeme der reinen Vernunft und ihre Kritik 1785–1845'' [Classical German philosophy after Kant. Systems of pure reason and their critique 1785–1845]. Munich: Beck, {{ISBN|978-3-406-63046-0}}. * with Andreas Arndt (2013). ''Die Philosophie der Neuzeit: Klassische deutsche Philosophie von Fichte bis Hegel'' [The Philosophy of the Modern Age: Classical German Philosophy from Fichte to Hegel]. Munich: Beck, {{ISBN|978-3-406-55134-5}} (Czech translation 2016). * (2020). ''Hegels Philosophie'' [Hegel's Philosophy]. Hamburg: Meiner, {{ISBN|978-3-7873-3704-0}}.
=== Translations into English === * {{Cite book |last=Jaeschke |first=Walter |url=http://archive.org/details/wisechoicesaptfe0000gibb |title=Reason in Religion : The Foundations of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion |date=1990 |publisher=Berkeley : University of California Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-520-06518-5}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Robert R. |author-link=Robert R. Williams (philosopher) |date=1990 |title=Walter Jaeschke (Ed.), Die Vernunft in der Religion: Studien zur Grundlegung der Religionsphilosophie Hegels (Spekulation und Erfahrung). Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1986. 478 pages. 128 DM (110 DM Subscription price). |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00141873 |journal=International Journal for Philosophy of Religion |language=en |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=47–61 |doi=10.1007/BF00141873 |issn=1572-8684|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lakeland |first=Paul |date=1991-06-01 |title=Book Review: Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/004056399105200213 |journal=Theological Studies |language=EN |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=355–357 |doi=10.1177/004056399105200213 |issn=0040-5639|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Inwood |first=Michael |date=1992 |title=Review of Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20019548 |journal=Religious Studies |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=280–282 |issn=0034-4125}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schlitt |first=Dale M. |date=1992 |title=Review of Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1465353 |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=341–344 |issn=0002-7189}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ludwig |first=Walter D. |date=1991 |title=Review of Reason in Religion: The Foundations of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20129148 |journal=The Review of Metaphysics |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=127–128 |issn=0034-6632}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaeschke, Walter}} Category:20th-century German philosophers Category:21st-century German philosophers Category:German philosophers of religion Category:1945 births Category:2022 deaths Category:People from Amberg Category:German scholars of Hegel