76. M. Lazarus - The Life of the Soul

In monographs on its phenomena and laws 1st edition, Berlin 1856, 3rd edition, 1883-97, 3 volumes

On May 28, M. Lazarus celebrates his 25th anniversary as professor at the University of Berlin. His students will certainly commemorate their teacher on this day. But you don't need to be his student to celebrate his anniversary. For Lazarus' "Life of the Soul" is a book that everyone who wants to lay claim to education must have read. However, there are no broad perspectives or great horizons to be found in this book. But the fine sense of observation and the vivid presentation, which are so wonderfully graceful in it, have the effect of dramatic tension. Reading the book makes you feel good-natured. The broad comfort with which it is written does its part. There will be few books that cause as little excitement as this one and at the same time give us so much real insight into the soul. Lazarus is also called the founder of folk psychology. This science is still too problematic to be allowed to say anything about it on the 25th anniversary of its founder's professorship.