Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff

Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff (* October 18, 1782 in Berlin, † 1863) was a philosophical writer.

Life

As the son of a musician Trahndorff visited by his twelfth year at the school in Oels, where his father had been appointed as director of the chapel of the Duke of Brunswick- oil which Friedrich August I.. He studied from 1801 to theology and philology at Königsberg and was then life as a high school teacher, mostly in Berlin, works.

Religious and philosophical classification

As a religious- philosophical writer Trahndorff belonged to the supranaturalists that make against theological rationalism underivability, supernatural and mysterious connotation of religious revelation on coated way strong and - in reverse - minimize the possibilities of human reason to comprehend the content of faith.

From this tendency also Trahndorffs understands polemical work Theos, not Cosmos! , With which he wanted to counter the growing popularity of Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos Factory, which he took as incompatible with the Bible.

Trahndorffs plant aesthetics or theory of ideology and art was mainly for the romantics and their conception of the " Gesamtkunstwerk " of meaning. Trahndorff seems to have used this term for the first time.

Works

• The shield of the holy Winfried, Berlin 1825
• Aesthetics or theory of ideology and art 2 vols, Berlin 1827
• How can assert his right against Hegel 's philosophy of religion supernaturalism? , Berlin 1840
• Schelling and Hegel and the Hegelian system as a last result of the basic error in all previous philosophy, Berlin 1842
• The world-historical doubt, or: Is God only idea or objective reality, Barmen in 1852?
• About the importance of Berlin in the great crisis of our time, Berlin 1852
• The man, the image of the triune God. Attempt a dogmatic correction, Berlin 1853
• Theos, not cosmos! Memorandum as a witness to the truth, Berlin, 1859