Benno Erdmann

Benno Erdmann (* May 30, 1851 in Guhrau, Lower Silesia, † January 7, 1921 in Berlin) was a German philosopher. As a full professor five Prussian universities he worked on logic and psychology.

Life

The son of a free Christian preacher Erdmann studied at the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin and the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. Heymann stone valley, Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Bonitz and Eduard Zeller were influential teachers. In 1873 he received his doctorate in Berlin to Dr. phil. Helmholtz suggested Erdmann publication before the axioms of geometry (1877 ) as the basis for his habilitation. Since 1876 lecturer, Erdmann was in 1878, as ao Professor at the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel. 1879, they summoned him to her chair.

In 1884 he was appointed the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. He moved in 1890 to the Frederick University Hall and in 1898 the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität. For the academic year 1907/ 08 they elected him Rector. In his inaugural speech on 18 October 1907, he dealt with the functions of imagination in scientific thinking. When he returned to Berlin in 1909, he was also elected as Rector there. On January 27, 1914, he spoke About the modern monism. As a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, he headed to the death of Wilhelm Dilthey their complete works of Immanuel Kant and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

His children included Lothar Erdmann and Käthe Erdmann (1882-1952), who married Friedrich Brie.

Writings

  • Martin Knutzen and his time. 1876
  • The axioms of geometry, a philosophical investigation of the Riemann - Helmholtz's theory of space. Leipzig: Voss 1877
  • Kant's Criticism in the first and in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. 1878
  • Logic. Vol 1 Logical elementary teaching. Halle: Niemeyer 1892 ( review by Bernard Bosanquet to in Mind 1 (1892 ) 2)
  • Essays on philosophy and its history. 1893
  • Psychological studies about reading on an experimental basis. 1898
  • The psychology of the child, and the school in 1901
  • Past studies on Kant's Prolegomena. 1904
  • About the content and validity of the causal law in 1905
  • Outlines the psychology of thinking. 1908
  • About the modern monism 1914
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