Dietrich Tiedemann

Dietrich Tiedemann, also Dieterich Tiedemann, ( born April 3, 1748 in Bremervörde, † May 24, 1803 in Marburg ) was an eclectic philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Life

The son of the legally qualified mayor Franz Tiedemann attended schools in Bremervörde in Verden and Bremen in the Lutheran Gymnasium ( Athenaeum Bremen). In 1767 he began his studies in Göttingen, heard Abraham Gotthelf Kästner in mathematics, philosophy of Weber and devoted himself otherwise theology. Encouraged by his childhood friend Christoph Meiners, but later he turned to the philosophical literature. Inspired by travel descriptions he made up a plan to write a history of mankind.

1769 he took a job as a tutor of the children of Baron Budberg in Livonia. In 1774 he returned to Göttingen and perfected in Christian Gottlob Heyne's philological seminar his knowledge of the classical languages ​​. On whose recommendation he was appointed in Kassel in 1776 as professor of Latin and Greek at the Collegium Carolinum.

He devoted himself to further the study of philosophy and its history. Johannes Nikolaus Tetens adjusted his materialistic views back into place. His beliefs were based on the metaphysics of Leibniz and the epistemology of Locke. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason interested him on the liveliest, but not to win it for themselves.

In 1778 he married Sophie Rothausen in Kassel, with whom he had four children, including the eldest, Friedrich Tiedemann (* 1781 in Kassel).

When in 1786 the majority of the professors of the Collegium Carolinum was transferred to the University of Marburg, he also moved there about, received in Marburg full professor of philosophy and lectured on logic, metaphysics, natural law, morality, and philosophy of history. Soon after, he was appointed privy councilor. He led the study of behavioral development due to concrete observation one, kept a diary about his son's development and gave out 1787 observations on the development of the soul ability in children.

Works

  • Attempt at an explanation of the origin of language; 1772
  • System of the Stoic philosophy; 3 parts, Leipzig 1776 ( Online)
  • Studies on humans; Leipzig 1777-78 (Online, Vol 3)
  • Greece's first philosophers; Leipzig 1780
  • Hermes Trismegistus 's Poemander and Asklepias, or of the divine power and wisdom; Berlin and Stettin 1781 ( Online)
  • Theaetetus, or that human knowledge, a contribution to the critique of reason; Frankfurt 1794
  • Spirit of speculative philosophy; 6 volumes, Marburg 1791-97
  • Handbook of Psychology (edited with a biography of the author by L. Wachler ); Leipzig 1804
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