Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer
Philipp Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer, later Knights of Niethammer ( born March 26, 1766 Beilstein, † April 1, 1848 in Munich) was a German philosopher and theologian.
Life
Born in Württemberg in a pastor's family Niethammer entered 1780 in the convent school in Denkendorf one, moved in 1782 to the higher convent school to Maulbronn and in 1784 fellow in Tubingen, where he met Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.
In 1790 he came to Jena, where he studied under Carl Leonhard Reinhold Kant's philosophy studied and befriended Franz Paul Herbert from Klagenfurt, with whom he remained friends until his death, and in the white lead factory, he 1793/94 worked. Both were friends with the Reinhold- pupil Johann Benjamin Erhard, the book On the right of the people to a revolution published in 1795.
From 1794 he lectured at the University of Jena philosophy; from 1797 he was, together with Johann Gottlieb Fichte out the Philosophical Journal in 1798 and became involved in the atheism, and be the Herberts had triggered friend Friedrich Karl Forberg.
In 1795 he devoted Herbert Scripture About Religion as a science for determining the content of religions and the type of treatment of their documents. Until 1804 he worked as an associate professor of theology at Jena.
In 1804 he accepted an appointment in Würzburg and in 1806 the Protestant secondary school commissioner of francs. From 1807, he sat as Bavarian Central School Board for the Protestant Commission by the curriculum reform in the new humanistic sense.
The benefits derived from Cicero's humanitas term humanism was first used by Niethammer for a critique of the Enlightenment shaped by education. In the book The hassle of Philanthropinismus and humanism in the theory of education teaching our time, Jena 1808, this critique knocked down. From Niethammer's parlance, the term of the grammar school was built. In 1808 he became an associate member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1822 finally a full member of the research facility.
Until 1826, he was a senior school and senior church before he only perceived the church office. 1833 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, he was by King William I of Württemberg awarded in 1838 by Ludwig I of Bavaria, the Knight's Cross of Merit of the Bavarian Crown. With two Orders, the elevation to personal nobility was connected.