Friedrich Karl Biedermann

Friedrich Karl Biedermann ( born September 25, 1812 in Leipzig, † March 5, 1901 ) was a German politician, journalist and professor of philosophy.

Life

Biedermann studied from 1830 to 1834 in the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg philosophy, been to Leipzig he became a member of the democratically -minded Alte Leipziger fraternity. After his doctorate, he worked from 1835 as a private, 1838, as ao ( associate ) professor in Leipzig. He taught political science.

Because of its liberal publications and his commitment to civil rights, he became increasingly from the 1840s with the censorship authorities in conflict, in 1847 he was charged with lèse majesté.

In the wake of the March Revolution of 1848 Biedermann took part in the Pre-Parliament, was then secretary of the fifties Committee and was a member of several committees preparing for the Frankfurt National Assembly. There he was on 18 May 1848 to 26 May 1849 also MP for Zwickau. Biedermann was a member of the fractions Württemberg court, Augsburger Hof and Nuremberg court. From 22 May 1848 he was a member of the protocol Commission, from June 3, 1848 Secretary of the parliament. This office he resigned on 14 May 1849, when he was elected the first Vice President of the Parliament. He also belonged to the imperial deputation.

After he had resigned his seat in the cathedral, he took part in the June 1849 of the Gotha Nachparlament and was until 1850 a deputy in the Saxony state parliament.

In 1851 he was sentenced to imprisonment for insulting foreign rulers and in 1853 finally removed from his position as a professor. This in turn brought him a move to Weimar with it. Then Biedermann worked as a journalist and editor of several newspapers. In 1865 he again became A.O. Professor in Leipzig called. In 1869 he was re- Saxon Landtag, 1871, he moved to the National Liberal Party, whose founders in Saxony he counted, in the Reichstag.

Biedermann was a member of the Masonic Lodge Minerva of the three palm trees in Leipzig. He held numerous lectures in Leipzig Mercantile Association. For the history of the History Department at the University of Leipzig is also significant that he wanted to set up a Cultural History Institute. With his suggestion to set up an independent cultural and historical institution that was methodically but in contrast to the prevailing political history, he came to the philosophical faculty rejection. To those who rejected this institution form, was Georg Voigt. The establishment of such an institute was only some years after his death by Karl Lamprecht in 1909.

Writings

• The German philosophy from Kant to our time, their academic development and their position on the political and social conditions of the present. 2 vols. Mayer and Wigand, Leipzig 1842 ( digitized )
• The German parliament. Biedermann, Leipzig 1848 ( digitized )
• Memories from St. Paul's Church. Mayer, Leipzig 1849 ( digitized )
• Germany in the 18th century. 4 volumes. Weber, Leipzig 1867-1880 ( ND Scientia Aalen 1969)
• Guide in German history for use in schools, with four historical maps Voigländer, Leipzig 1895 ( digitized )
• German folk and cultural history for school and home (Part 1 - 3) Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1885-1886 ( digitized )