Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer

Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer ( full name is Karl August Theodor Otto Christian Bayrhoffer; born October 14, 1812 in Marburg, † February 3, 1888 in Monroe) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg and free thinkers.

Life

Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer studied philosophy at the University of Marburg and became a doctor and professor of philosophy. In 1828 he became a member of the Old Marburger fraternity Germania. From the beginning he was a Hegelian and a member of free religious associations. In 1846 he was suspended from his professorship of philosophy. In 1847 he founded the Free Religious Marburger community. During the so-called revolution of March, he participated in the First Democratic Congress in Frankfurt am Main (June 1848), where he was elected alternate member of the Central Committee. Twice he was elected to the Hessian national assembly, where he belonged to the extreme left. After the capture of the Electorate of Hesse by the Bavarian troops, he was persecuted as a criminal, but escaped with his wife Julie Christine Charlotte, daughter of the Marburg theology professor Andreas Leonhard Creuzer, and six children in Switzerland, from where he emigrated to the United States in 1852.

He bought a farm in the town of Jordan, Green County. His wife died in February 1853. 1854 he married for the second time. His second wife Charlotte died in 1864, leaving behind him a daughter and a son.

Ten years Bayrhoffer managed the farm until his grown-up sons took over and this gave him time for scientific work. He wrote articles for liberal German and English newspapers and magazines.

Works

• Represented the basic problems of metaphysics as an attempt their solution and issued with a erkenntnißtheoretisch - metaphysical fragments ( 1835)
• The concept of organic healing of man in proportion to the healing practices of the present. In addition to a preview of the present crisis in world history (1837 )
• The Concept and History of Philosophy ( 1838)
• Contributions to Natural Philosophy (1839 )
• The nature of the universe and the laws of humanism, represented from the standpoint of reason (1871 )

Discount

The estate of Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer contains family correspondence, personal papers, records of his university and political activity and (stock 340 Bayrhoffer ) is kept in the Hessian State Archive Marburg. It has a circumference of 0.25 linear meters and a duration period from 1793 bis 1851. The stock is fully indexed and searchable online HADIS.