Robert von Zimmermann

Robert Zimmermann ( born November 2, 1824 in Prague, † September 1, 1898 ) was an esthetician and philosophical writer.

Life

Robert Zimmermann studied at the universities of Prague and Vienna, philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences. At age 23, a carpenter in 1847 assistant at the Vienna University Observatory. Two years later he was promoted to lecturer in philosophy there and in 1850 he accepted an appointment as associate professor of the same discipline at the University of Olomouc.

1852 appointed to Zimmermann as full professor of philosophy at the Charles University in Prague, where he held a chair until 1861. In the summer of 1861 Zimmermann took a professorship at the University of Vienna, where he taught philosophy until his retirement. 1869 took the Imperial Academy of Sciences carpenter on as a member.

At this time, Zimmermann had already made its partisanship in the philosophers dispute between Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Theodor Vischer, on the one side and on the other Johann Friedrich Herbart and substantiated by the Herbartianism with his followers a name. Latter also belonged to a carpenter, who had become acquainted with his theories and his history of aesthetics.

Together with Emil Reich Zimmermann founded in Vienna in 1890, the Grillparzer Society; today one of the oldest literary societies of Austria.

On the occasion of his 72nd birthday Zimmermann was raised by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I to the peerage.

Works

  • Leibnitz 's Monadology. German with a treatise On Leibnitz and Herbart 's theories of the real events of Dr. Robert Zimmermann. Vienna in 1847;
  • Leibnitz and Herbart. A comparison of their Monadologien; winning prize essay by Robert Zimmermann. Vienna in 1849;
  • What we expect from philosophy? . A lecture at the commencement of the ordinary magisterium philosophy at Prague College, held on 26 April 1852. Prague 1852.
  • The legal principle in Leibnitz. A Contribution to the History of the Philosophy of Law (Vienna 1852);
  • Philosophical propaedeutic. Vienna 1852, 3rd edition 1867; ( several times translated into foreign languages);
  • About the tragic and the tragedy. Vienna in 1856;
  • Aesthetics ( Vienna 1858-1865, 2 vols, the first contains the history and criticism, the second the system );
  • Studies and reviews the philosophy and aesthetics. Vienna in 1870, 2 vols;
  • Samuel Clarke's life and teaching. Vienna 1870.
  • Anthroposophy in outline. Vienna in 1882; which latter book contains his system of philosophical sciences. In addition, he has published numerous papers in the publications of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
  • Leibnitz in Spinoza. An illumination of the dispute. Vienna 1890.
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