Johann Gottlieb Buhle

Johann Gottlieb Buhle, Gerhard ( born September 29, 1763 in Braunschweig, † August 11, 1821 ) was a German philosopher, philologist and historian of philosophy.

Life

Buhle grew up as the son of the physician and science writer Christian August Buhle (1734-1807) in Braunschweig. He studied philosophy and philology in Helmstedt and Göttingen. In 1787 he joined the teaching at Göttingen as professor of philosophy. From 1804 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the fledgling University of Moscow. From 1811 he also ordered the Office of the Librarian of the private library of Catherine Pavlovna, the Grand Duchess of Russia. After his return to Germany he became in 1815 professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick, where he died in 1821.

From his writings was particularly his eight-volume textbook of the history of philosophy, published in 1796-1804 in Göttingen at Cambridge University Press, granted a certain aftereffect. Many of his writings deal with Aristotle, with its main topics and methodological approaches are quite influenced by contemporary philosophy, such as Immanuel Kant.

Works (selection)

• Outlines of a general Encyclopedia of Science., 1790.
• Textbook of the history of philosophy and a critical literature the same. 8 volumes, 1796-1804.
• Draft Transcendentalphilosophie. In 1798.
• Textbook of natural law. In 1799.
• Ideas for law, morality and politics. In 1799.
• Attempt a critical literature of Russian history., 1810.
• To the origin and life of the human race and the future fate after death. In 1821.