Karl Ludwig Michelet

Karl Ludwig Michelet (actually Charles -Louis Michelet; born December 4, 1801 in Berlin, † December 15, 1893 ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Michelet was born into a well-established in Berlin, Huguenot cloth merchant family. His father Louis Michelet (1775-1841) was a co-owner, later ( thanks to her marriage to Karl Ludwig mother Victoire Girard, 1777-1831 ) the sole owner of the silk factory Girard & Michelet.

After the visit of the French school Michelet took a law degree in 1819 at the Alma Mater Berolinensis on. There he attended lectures by Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the jurist, August von Bethmann Hollweg and Carl Wilhelm von Lancizolle, but soon theology in Schleiermacher and logic and legal philosophy in Hegel, who was to Michelet's mission statement. In 1822 he passed the first state examination in law, and then wrote his dissertation on Hegel, which he submitted in 1824. After passing the teaching certificate, he taught from 1825 to 1850 at the French school. After his habilitation in 1826, he was appointed in 1829 as an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin, which he held until 1874.

He unfolded His effect particularly in the dissemination of Hegelian philosophy. He reconstructed Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy on the basis of lecture notes and handwritten notes Hegel for printing, belonged ( with Ludwig Bouman, Fritz Förster, Eduard Gans, Karl Hegel, Leopold von Henning, Heinrich Gustav Hotho, Philipp Marheineke, Karl Rosary and John Schulze ) for " club of friends of the departed ," who issued the Complete edition of Hegel's works from 1832 to 1845, and was from 1860 to 1866 editor of the magazine the Hegelian thought. Among his students were David Friedrich Strauss and August Cieszkowski, which he founded in 1843 the Philosophical Society of Berlin.

Michelet died at the age of 92 years. His grave is probably due to the French cemetery I or II the French cemetery in Berlin.