Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch

Maurice William Drobisch ( born August 16, 1802 in Leipzig, † September 30, 1896 ) was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher.

Life

He learned first at the Leipzig's St. Nicholas School and at the Prince's School in Grimsby, and then studied from 1820 to 1824 at the University of Leipzig mathematics and philosophy. At the Faculty of Arts, he received his doctorate and his habilitation in 1824, his main interest was in Johann Friedrich Herbart. ; special merits are attributed to him in the field of empirical psychology and logic. In this regard, his attempt at a popular science of logic in the same work is emphasized. For this also shows that Drobisch was the non-formal, classic exposition of logic much closer than in the second half of the 19th century emergence of a formalized interpretations that a significant degree by George Boole, Ernst Schröder, Gottlob Frege and Charles S. Peirce have been developed. Of particular value is his work today mainly because extensive references are made ​​to contemporary writers and a not insignificant contribution of the development history of pie charts contained therein.

With his hexameter studies Drobisch one of the pioneers of Quantitative Linguistics. For the data Drobisch presented for use of hexameter types, it can be shown that they follow some of the negative hypergeometric distribution, some of the Polya distribution.

He was professor of mathematics (1826-1868) and philosophy (since 1842) at the University of Leipzig. In 1840/1841 he was rector of the University of Leipzig, several times he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

Drobisch was the Princely Jablonowskischen Society of Sciences in Leipzig and in 1846 co-founded and since then a member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig since 1834 member. In 1868 he gave up a tenured professorship of mathematics in order to devote himself exclusively to philosophy can.

1876 ​​Drobisch was made an honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig. From the mid-1880s, he was no longer able to continue his scientific work due to an eye condition. On September 30, 1896 Drobisch died at the age of 94 years in Leipzig. The academic mourning speech was Wilhelm Wundt.

In 1971, the Saxon Academy of Sciences, founded in honor of his contributions to their foundation, the Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch Medal.

Writings

  • Contributions to orientation on Herbart 's system of philosophy, Voss, Leipzig 1834
  • New representation of the logic of their modest circumstances. In addition to a logical-mathematical appendix, 1836 ( the 2nd to 5th edition provide a virtually new version is )
  • Quaestionum methematico - psychologicarum spec. I- V, Leipzig 1840
  • Basic teachings of the philosophy of religion, Voss, Leipzig 1840
  • Empirical psychology of scientific method, Voss, Leipzig 1842, 2nd edition. 1898
  • About the mathematical determination of musical intervals, 1846
  • First foundation of mathematical psychology, Voss, Leipzig 1850
  • New representation of the logic of their modest circumstances. With regard to mathematics and science. Publisher Leopold Voss Hamburg and Leipzig, 2nd edition. 1851, 3rd edition. 1863 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim, 1968), 4th edition. 1875, 5th edition. 1887
  • The moral statistics and human free will. Voss, Leipzig 1867.
  • About the training philosophy by Herbart, Leipzig 1876
  • Kant's things in themselves, and his concept of experience, publisher Leopold Voss Hamburg and Leipzig 1885
  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edited by Otto wings, Beyer, Langensalza 1908
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