Doctorate In History From: RATHAUS, rat'hous, Karol, Polish-American composer: b. Tarnopol, Austria-Hungary (now Ternopol, USSR), Sept. 16, 1895; d. New York, N.Y., Nov. 21, 1954. He studied at the University of Vienna and at the Vienna Academy of Music, where his instructor in composition was Franz Schreker. After serving in the Austrian Army in World War I, he resumed his studies, receiving a doctorate in history from the university in 1922.
RIEMANN, (Karl Wilhelm Julius) Hugo,German musical historian and critic: b. Gross-mehlra, near Sondershausen, Germany, July 18, 1849; d. Leipzig, July 10, 1919. After serving in the Franco-Prussian War, he continued his studies of law, philosophy, and history at the universities of Berlin and Tubingen, and in 1873 received his doctorate at Gottingen. Turning to music, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, where in 1878 he became university lecturer on music. In 1880 he moved to Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz, Poland), and from 1881 to 1890 taught at the Hamburg Conservatory.
His History of Ionian Philosophy(1821) ; History of the Pythagorean Philosophy (1826), and Notes on the Philosophy of the Megarean School in the Rheinisches Museum, are models of historical investigation on the principles of Schleiermacher. His historical masterpiece is the History of Philosophy (1829-53), which deals with general history up to the time of Kant. It was supplemented by a Review of the History of German Philosophy from the Time of Kant (1853). |
