Ernst Philipp Barthel (17 October 1890 in Schiltigheim - 16 February 1953 in Oberkirch (Baden)) was an Alsace philosopher, mathematician, and inventor.
The main principle of Barthel's philosophy on the background of Christian Platonism was the Polarity, which he understood to be the most fundamental, constitutive law in all of nature.
[4] The Russian astronomer Leonid Leonidovich Andrenko considered Barthel's main thought among the most genius ever advocated.
[5] In November 1940 Barthel was dismissed from the University of Cologne by the Nazi Minister Bernhard Rust because of religio-metaphysical suspicions.
Barthel's book Der Mensch und die ewigen Hintergründe was cited as evidence.