Johannes Rehmke
John Rehmke ( born 1 February 1848 in Grove Wood in Elmshorn, † December 23, 1930 in Marburg ) was a German philosopher and university professor.
Life
John Rehmke was the second son of the elementary school teacher Hans Hinrich Rehmke and his wife Margaret, née Engelbrecht. After his first lessons from his father, he attended the school rector in Uetersen and then the high school Christianeum in Altona, where among other things, Helmut von Moltke was his classmate. In 1867 he went to study in Kiel, a year later to Zurich at Alois Emanuel Biedermann. Rehmke was with the work of Hartmann 's unconscious towards a critical look at the logic of his doctorate in 1875 in Zurich. His habilitation in 1884 in Berlin with the treatise The World as percept and concept.
Rehmke received in 1885 as an associate professor at the University of Greifswald in 1887 where he became a full professor. In 1898, he served as rector of the university. After his forced retirement in 1921 he lectured in Marburg. Among his most important students included the Bulgarian philosopher Dimitri Michaltschew, the Romanian philosopher Mircea Florian George, the philosopher John Erich Heyde and Sophus upfield and the Protestant theologian Friedrich Karl Schumann.
In his birthplace Elmshorn a street is named after Rehmke.
Awards
- Red Eagle Order 4th class in 1905
- Privy Councillor in 1908
- Prussian Crown, 3rd Class in 1911
- Appointment as an honorary citizen of the town of Greifswald in 1923