Karl von Prantl

Carl Prantl, since 1872 Ritter von Prantl (* January 28, 1820 in Landsberg am Lech, † September 14, 1888 in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu) was a German philosopher.

At the age of 17 he began in Munich, the study of classical antiquity (including with Friedrich Thiersch and Leonhard Spengel ), which he completed after 4 years with his thesis. A travel scholarship brought him 1842/43 in Berlin, where he heard especially in August Boeckh and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. He was an associate from 1847, from 1859 professor of philology and philosophy in Munich in 1864.

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences elected him in 1848 on their huge member, in 1857, he was appointed as a full member. Furthermore, he was a member of the Academy in Berlin. In 1872, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was thus raised as a knight of Prantl in the personal nobility. For the year 1879/80 he was elected Rector of the University of Munich.

His son is the botanist Carl Prantl.

Publications

Prantl published numerous essays on the history of philosophy, about the philosophy of law and logic. His main work is considered the "history of logic in the West " (Munich 1855-70, 4 vols, vol 2 in 2nd edition 1885). Further publications are:

  • Aristotle on the colors (Munich 1849)
  • The current task of philosophy (Munich 1852)
  • Overview of the Greco- Roman philosophy (Stuttgart 1854)
  • Aristotle: Eight Books of the Physics (Greek and German, Leipzig, 1854)
  • Aristotle: Four books on the sky building (Greek and German, Leipzig, 1857)
  • The philosophy in Proverbs (Munich 1858)
  • Michael Psellus and Peter Hispanus (Munich 1867)
  • History of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Ingolstadt, Landshut, Munich (Munich 1872, 2 vols )
  • Commemorative speech on Trendelenburg (Munich 1873)
  • Understanding and judging ( Munich 1877), inter alia,
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