R.F.A. [Reinhold Friedrich Alfred] Hoernlé (1880-1943)
November 27, 1880 - July 21, 1943
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Biographical note
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b. 27 November 1880, in Bonn, Germany, to the famous Indologist A.F.R.
Hoernlé (1841-1918)
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spent his early years in India (where he became fluent in Hindi)
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elementary and secondary school in Germany
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admission to Balliol College, Oxford, 1899
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BA 1903; MA 1907
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election to a Senior Demyship at Magdalen College
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October 1905-fall 1907, assistant to Bernard Bosanquet at St Andrews
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B.Sc.; thesis on “Modern Theories of the Will” at Oxford in 1907
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January 1908-1911, Professor at the South African College (later, University
of Cape Town)
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January 1912-1914, Professor, Chair of Philosophy, Armstrong College (Newcastle-upon-Tyne),
University of Durham
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1914 married Agnes Winnifred Tucker of S. Africa
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mid-Summer 1914-1920, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Summer 1920-1923, Professor, Armstrong College
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1923-43, Professor, University of the Witswatersrand
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Chair of the Johannesburg Joint Council of European and Natives, a member
of the executive (from 1932) and Chair (from 1934) of the South African
Institute of Race Relations, and of the Society of Christians and Jews
(from 1937)
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d. 21 July 1943
Major books
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Studies in Contemporary Metaphysics. New York, Harcourt, Brace and
Howe, 1920
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Idealism as a philosophy, New York, George H. Doran, 1927
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Matter, life, mind and God; five lectures on contemporary tendencies
of thought. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1922.
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South African native policy and the liberal spirit : being the Phelps-Stokes
lectures, delivered before the University of Cape Town, May, 1939.
University of Cape Town, 1939.
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Race and reason; being mainly a selection of contributions to the race
problem in South Africa, by the late Professor R. F.Alfred Hoernle.
Edited with a memoir by Professor I. D. MacCrone. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand
University Press, 1945.
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Studies in philosophy. Edited and with a memoir by Daniel S. Robinson.
London, G. Allen & Unwin [1952]
[a discussion of Hoernlé's views appears in Chapter 2 of Philosophy
As A Science Its Matter And Its Method By C. J. Ducasse]
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