STEIN, Edith (Sister Teresa Benedetta of the Cross). - Born a Jew on 12 Oct. 1891 in Breslau, converted to Catholicism, d. - torn from the Carmel of Echt in Holland by the Nazi S.S. -

in a gas chamber of the concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland in 1942, it seems on 10 Aug.

A pupil and later assistant of E. Husserl (v.) at Göttingen and at Freiburg im Breisgau, her speculative activity was oriented toward a bringing together of the phenomenological method with Thomist gnoseology and metaphysics. In her opinion, in fact, one can base oneself on St. Thomas (De verit., q. 10) in order to recognize in the world of immanence a more immediate character than the external world..., because in reflexive knowledge act and object are in a certain sense one 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).

STEIN, EDITH - Portrait (Freiburg 1920).(from Teresia Renata de Spiritu Sancto, E. S. Italian trans., Ieropema 1898, inv. three pp. 118-13)

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 the letters with the Diary of Newman (1928). She also published a collection of moral studies: Das Ethos der Frauenberufe (1931). The publication of her principal works is in progress. So far there have appeared, edited by L. Gelder-R. Leeven, the two unpublished works: I. Kreuzeswissenschaft, Studie über Joannes a Cruce (Louvain-Freiburg 1950); II. Endliches und ewiges Sein, Versuch eines Aufstieges zum Sinn des Seins (ibid. 1950).

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: Teresia Renata de Spiritu Sancto, E. S., Lebensbild einer Philosophin und Karmelitin, Nuremberg 1948, Italian trans. 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

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