Stein, Edith (Sister Teresa Benedetta of the Cross) (STEIN, EDITH (SUOR TERESA BENEDETTA DELLA CROCE))

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

STEIN, EDITH (Sister TERESA BENEDETTA of the Cross). - Born a Jewess on Oct. 12, 1891, in Breslau, converted to Catholicism, d. - snatched from the Carmelite convent of Echt in Holland by the Nazi SS -

Article illustration — (from Teresia Renata de Spiritu Sancto, E. S. Italian transl., Hieroponto 1948, betw. pp. 112-13) STEIN, EDITH - Portrait (Freiburg 1920).

immanence a more immediate character than the external world..., because in reflective knowledge act and object are in a certain sense a single thing and it is therefore closer to the knowledge of God than to the knowledge of external things (cf. La phénoménologie, Juvisy 1932, p. 85).

The principal theoretical studies of S. were published in Husserl's Jahrbuch f. Phänomenologie u. phän. Forschung from 1917 to 1929. In particular: Husserls Phänomenologie u. die Philosophie des hl. Thomas von Aquino, in Festschrift E. Husserl zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet, Halle a. S. 1929, pp. 315-38. She translated St. Thomas (Untersuchungen über die Wahrheit, 2 vols., 1931, 1935) and Newman's letters and diary (1928). She also published a collection of moral studies: Das Ethos der Frauenberufe (1931). The publication of her major works is underway. So far, edited by L. Gelder-R. Leeven, the two previously unpublished works have been released: I. Kreuzeswissenschaft, Studie über Joannes a Cruce (Louvain-Freiburg 1950); II. Endliches und ewiges Sein, Versuch eines Aufstieges zum Sinn des Seins (ibid. 1950).

BIBL.: Teresia Renata de Spiritu Sancto, E. S., Lebensbild einer Philosophin und Karmelitin, Nuremberg 1948, Ital. transl. Brescia 1952; C. Fabro, E. S. Dalla filosofia al supplicio, in Ecclesia, 9 (1949), pp. 347-50. List of works in W. Ziegenfuss, Philosophen-Lexikon, II, Berlin 1950, p. 627. Cf. also anon., E. S.: zum Gedächtnis, in Herder Korrespondenz, 6 (1932), pp. 532-35. Cornelio Fabro