Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer
Carl August von Eschenmayer (also: Adolph (Adam) Karl August (from) Eschenmayer, born July 4, 1768 in Neuenbürg (Württemberg ), † November 17, 1852 in Kirchheim / Teck ) was a German physician, philosopher and occultist.
Life
Eschenmayer enrolled in October 1783 at the University of Tübingen to study philosophy. After the death of his father he changed to pressure from his family to commercial training to Stuttgart, where he had the opportunity to hear presentations Teaching at the Charles school. Under the influence of Schiller, who studied at the Charles School, took Eschenmayer two years later, now of legal age to study medicine at the Charles school, which he continued after the abolition of Charles school in 1794 at the University of Tübingen, where in March 1796 the promotion and, in November of the same year, the state exam completed. After studying in Göttingen he settled in 1797 as a general practitioner in Kirchheim down from where he was soon promoted as chief medical officer to Sulz. In 1798 he married Johanna Christiana Friderica Bilfinger, a marriage remained childless. 1800 returned Eschenmayer back to Kirchheim, where he was city physician and personal physician to the Duchess Franziska.
In 1811 he was appointed as associate professor of medicine and philosophy at the University of Tübingen and in 1818 appointed a full professor of practical philosophy. 1812 received from Eschenmayer the Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Civil Merit, which was connected with the personal titles of nobility. 1820, the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, he was awarded.
Eschenmayer dealt with animal magnetism and used the "magnetic cure" after his retirement in 1836 in his practice. Together with his friend Justinus Kerner, he examines the visionary of Prevorst. How Kerner ( " Grosbeak " ) is mocked even Eschenmayer ( "Professor Esch Michel " ) in Immermann Munchausen. As "Professor E." he finds himself in Wilhelmine Canz 'novel Eritis sicut Deus.
Services
Eschenmayer is a student of Schelling. He sat down with Schelling's philosophy of identity, especially apart, but also with the teachings of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. At that time, Jacobi tried to "overcome discursive thought and atheism of the Enlightenment through the intuitive > immediate knowledge ' and the supernatural - religious experience ." This was followed by Eschenmayer:
Eschmeyer Schelling moved to a rethink by this accepted the duality of philosophy. Schelling came with it despite all the polemic against Eschenmayer the criticism of his identity philosophy by Hegel before. Eschenmayer, which, inter alia, the prestige owes its high position, admitting the Schelling of medicine, at least in the literary public of romance eyes, was one of the last who supported Schelling's teachings alongside Heinrich Steffens and God Help Heinrich von Schubert, after the scientific and not natural philosophy oriented medicine began to prevail. In this context it is also known that Wilhelm Griesinger (1818-1868) refused in Tubingen, to hear the lectures psychiatric Esch Mayers.
Works
- Attempt to explain the apparent magic of the animal magnetism of physiological and psychological laws (1816 )
- System of Moral Philosophy ( 1818)
- Psychology in three parts, as empirical, pure, applied (1817, 2nd edition 1822)
- Philosophy of Religion (3 volumes, 1818-1824 )
- The Hegelian philosophy of religion compared to the christl. Principle (1834 )
- The Ischariotismus our time (1835 )
- Conflict between heaven and hell, to the demon -possessed girl of observed (1837 )
- Floor plan of natural philosophy (1832 )
- Broad christl. Philosophy ( 1840)
- Reflections on the physical Weltbau (1852 )