Friedrich Bouterwek

Friedrich Ludewig Bouterweck, Frederick Bouterwek, ( born April 15, 1766 Oker; † August 9, 1828 in Göttingen ) was a German philosopher and writer.

Life

Bouterweck was the son of Friedrich Ferdinand Butterweck, the director of a mine to Oker.

At the University of Göttingen Bouterweck studied law and philology at the professors Christian Gottlob Heyne and Johann Georg Heinrich spring. Influenced by friends and by reading the works of Friedrich Schiller and Jean -Jacques Rousseau moved Bouterweck soon to literature and writing. Nevertheless, he successfully finished his law studies.

Under the pseudonym Ferdinand Adrianov he debuted in the Muse almanacs by Gottfried August Bürger. Following his studies he got a job at the top of Appeals in Hanover. Sponsored by Johann Wilhelm Gleim, Bouterweck the access to various literary circles in Berlin was relieved.

1789 could be Bouterweck as a lecturer in Göttingen down and taught history at first. Later he worked on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, whom he also met in person at the time. 1797 Bouterweck was as extraordinary. Prof. appointed ( as of 1802 o Prof ) to succeed his teacher's pen.

In the years 1801-1819 Bouterwecks history of poetry and eloquence arose. This work is still considered one of the last truly universal services of literary history. In his philosophical lectures Bouterweck spoke every winter semester on aesthetics. In the discussion between Immanuel Kant and Baruch Spinoza Bouterweck represented a more moderate rationalism.

Influenced by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi to Bouterwecks philosophical realism transformed into a system of Virtualismus. Here, it seems, had Bouterweck great influence on Arthur Schopenhauer, who was his student in Göttingen.

1806 married Bouterweck in Weende at Göttingen Sophie Julie West field. With her he had three daughters and two sons. The history painter Friedrich Bouterweck was his nephew.

Died in 1826, his wife of 54 years in Göttingen. Two years later, Friedrich Ludewig Bouterweck died at the age of 62 years on August 9, 1828 in Göttingen.

Works

  • Aesthetics (1806 )
  • History of poetry and eloquence since the end of the 13th century ( 1.1801-12.1819 )
  • Count Donamar (1791-1793)
  • Ideas to a general Apodiktik (1799 )
  • The religion of reason. Ideas to accelerate progress towards a durable Philosophy of Religion (1824 )
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