Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz

Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz ( born April 23 1805 in Magdeburg, † June 14, 1879 in Königsberg i Pr ) was a German philosopher Hegel and students.

Life and work

He was born the son of Johann Heinrich Rosary (1757-1830), a circle - excise and taxation officials in Magdeburg. His mother was Marie Catherine, born Gruson ( 1770-1824 ). After visiting the school and Cantor in the wake of the Old Town School, he moved in 1816 to the Pädagogium of the Monastery of Our Lady, where he earned his high school diploma in 1824. Rosary studied theology and philosophy in Berlin, Halle and Heidelberg. In Halle he became in 1828 a doctorate and habilitation in the same year with a thesis on Spinoza. He received in 1831 the title of extraordinary professor.

In 1830 he was one with Ritschl, Ruge, Hinrichs, Leo and Echtermeyer to althegelianischen Society for unplaced egg.

In the dispute between conservative- theistic, old liberal and liberal- atheist Young Hegelians he took a middle position. In 1831 he was awarded a professorship in Halle. Two years later he was appointed as a full professor at the Department of Kant in Königsberg. Between 1845 and 1863 he was several times rector of the Albertus University of Königsberg. He was Buried in the cemetery of scholars (Königsberg ).

Better known works are Psychology and the science of subjective spirit of 1837 (which Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety influenced ) The pedagogy as a system from the Revolution of 1848 and especially the aesthetics of the ugly (1853 ).

Rosenkranz wrote a total of about 250 articles and 65 books on various humanities fields, including an overall presentation of Goethe, which emerged from his lectures. Rosary is the only contemporary Hegel 's biographer: 1844, thirteen years after Hegel's death, the biography appeared under the title GWF Hegel's life.

He was the first, wrote a comprehensive biography in German language about the French philosopher, encyclopedist and writer Denis Diderot.

Works (selection)

  • Criticism of Schleiermacher's doctrine of faith (1836 )
  • Psychology or science of the subjective mind (1837, 3rd ed, 1863)
  • Critical remarks of Hegel's system (1840 )
  • Lectures on Schelling (1842 )
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's life Berlin ( 1844). Reproduction Darmstadt in 1977 and 1998.
  • System of Science ( 1850)
  • My reform of Hegel's Philosophy ( 1852)
  • Science of the logical idea ( 1858-59 ), with a supplement ( Epilegomena, 1862)
  • Diderot 's life and works ( 1866)
  • German philosopher Hegel as National (1870 )
  • Notes on Hegel 's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1871 ).
  • Goethe and his works. Königsberg in 1847, 2nd edition 1856.
  • Aesthetics of ugliness. . Königsberg 1853 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive ) reprint Darmstadt 1973, Stuttgart: Reclam 2007 and passim
  • Hegel 's philosophy of nature and the processing thereof by the Italian philosopher A. vera. Berlin 1868 (reprinted Hildesheim and New York 1979)
Albrecht Ritschl Arnold Ruge Heinrich Leo Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer Søren Kierkegaard Geisteswissenschaft Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Neue Deutsche Biographie Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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