Alois M. Haas in Uitikon, Switzerland (2003)

 

The Haas Library includes approximately 40,000 works donated by the eminent Germanist and scholar of Mysticism Alois M. Haas (Zurich, 1934) between 2001 and 2009. The main topics of this library are theology, philosophy, aesthetics and Art theory, and philology. It is currently one of the most requested book collections of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra through the interlibrary loan service.

The Haas Library is to be found in the library of the UPF, at the Water Tower Building (Dipòsit de les Aigües), Arts & Craft building with impressive arches built by Josep Fontserè (1880) and rehabilitated by Lluís Clotet and Ignacio Paricio (1999).

In 2013 the catalog Selected Works of the Haas Library is published. It reveals the thematic richness and uniqueness of the library.

Browse the Haas Collection in the UPFinder. Suggested Keywords: Philosophie, Theologie, Mysticism

 

Life

Alois Maria Haas is emeritous professor of the University of Zurich, worldwide known for his studies on German and Spanish Mysticism, on the History of Religions, and on the relationship between Christian Mysticism and Zen Buddhism.

Haas courses Medieval Studies, German Studies and History in Zurich, Berlin, Paris and Munich, and receives his PhD in Zurich (1963).

Between 1969 and 1971 he is a Faculty member of the Department of German Studies at McGill University in Montréal (Canada).

From 1971 he is professor of German Literature at the University of Zurich. From 1978, honorary doctor of Theology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Fellow of the Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin (1988-1989).

President of the Paracelsus Society of Switzerland (1989-...). He is currently Honorary President.

Work

In German

  • Parzivals tumpheit bei Wolfram von Eschenbach (1964);
  • Nim din selbes war. Studien zur Lehre von der Selbsterkenntnis bei Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler und Heinrich Seuse (1971);
  • Todesbilder im Mittelalter (1989);
  • Gottleiden -Gottlieben. Zur volkssprachlichen Mystik im Mittelalter (1989);
  • Meister Eckhart als normative Gestalt geistlichen Lebens (1995);
  • Kunst rechter Gelassenheit (1996);
  • Mystisches Denkbilder (2014);
  • Offene Horizonte: Gott, Engel, Mensch (2019).

Translated to Spanish

  • Visión en azul. Estudios de mística europea, trad. V. Cirlot and A. Vega (Siruela, Madrid 1999)
  • Maestro Eckhart, una figura normativa de la vida espiritual, trad. R.H. Bernet (Herder, Barcelona 2002)
  • Viento de lo absoluto: ¿Existe una sabiduría mística de la posmodernidad?, trad. Jorge Seca (Siruela, Madrid, 2009).