Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs

Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs ( * April 22, 1794 or 1797 in Karlseck, community Hohenkirchen ( Wanger country), today Wanger country, Friesland district, † September 17, 1861 in Friedrichroda ) was a Protestant theologian, German philosopher and political writer.

Hinrichs attended high school in Jever, studied theology in Strasbourg, then in Heidelberg philosophy under Hegel, who his writing (1822 Heidelberg) initiated Religion in the inner relationship to science with a preface.

After Hinrichs 1819 Habilitation in Heidelberg, he became in 1822 associate professor in Breslau, in 1824 a full professor of philosophy at Halle, where he carried his Elements of the Philosophy of Logic (Hall 1826) and the genesis of knowledge ( Heidelberg 1835, Vol 1) one of the main representatives of the orthodox Hegelian direction was.

In his aesthetic writings: lectures on Goethe's Faust (Hall 1825) and Schiller seals according to their historical context (Leipzig 1837-39, 2 vols ) has Hinrichs first dealt with the content of classical seals according to Hegelian categories.

His history of the laws and principles of government since the Reformation to the present day (Leipzig 1848-52, 3 vols ) has a collection of material value; his attempt in the book The Kings ( 2 Aufl.1853 ) represent the various historically encountered forms of kingship as moments of modern ( Prussian ), found as the previous Political Lectures (Hall 1843, 2 ​​vols ) only with the conservative party appeal.

His last work: Life in nature (Hall 1854) should give the forerunner of a larger work on the history of the earth, before the completion of which he died in Friedrichroda on 17 September 1861.