Hans Freyer

Hans Freyer, born July 31 1887 in Leipzig, died January 18 1969 in Ebersteinburg near Wiesbaden, was an important, controversial conservative German sociologist and philosopher.

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Freyer began studying theology, national economics, history and philosophy in Greifswald in 1907, with the aim of becoming a Lutheran theologian. A year later he moved to Leipzig, where he initially took the same courses, but then gave up the theological parts. He gained his doctorate in 1911. His early works on the philosophy of life had an influence on the German youth movement. In 1920 he qualified as a university lecturer, and in 1922 he became a professor at the university of Kiel.

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Portrait of Hans Holbein	Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen	Hans Holbein the Younger Engraved by Bartholomaus Huebner 1790	Portrait Miniature of Count Hans Axel Von Fersen (1755-1810)
The Artist at Work Painting Hans Sachs	The King Makes a Promise to Hans the Hedgehog	Apparatus For Healing Arm Fractures Feldtbuch Der Wundartzney Hans Von Gersdorff c.1540	Amputation Illustration from Feldtbuch Der Wundartzney by Hans Von Gersdorff c.1540
The Old Witch Combing Gerda's Hair in 'The Snow Queen' from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales	Edith Erastoff and Victor Sjöström: Berg-Ejvind Och Hans Hustru 1918	Meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 7th June 1520 after Hans Holbein the Elder (1460/5-1524)