Thomas Abbt

Abbt Thomas ( born November 25, 1738 in Ulm, † November 3, 1766 in Biickeburg ) was a German writer and philosopher of the Enlightenment.

Life

Thomas Abbt was born the son of a wigmaker. After attending high school in Ulm, he studied from 1756 at the University of Halle in philosophy and mathematics. 1760 had Abbt as professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt on the Oder; in the fall of 1761, he accepted a position as professor of mathematics to Rinteln. From 1761 to 1762 he was a professor in Berlin for both subjects.

His stay in Berlin brought him the acquaintance of the Enlightenment Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, whose Berlin Wednesday Society he belonged soon. Even with Moses Mendelssohn completed Abbt friendship. Under the pseudonym * B * Abbt employee of the letters, the latest literature was regarding what appeared in 24 parts 1733-1765 in Berlin. On the way home after a nearly year-long stay in France Abbt visited the philosopher Voltaire in Ferney, near Geneva.

End of 1765, Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe appointed scholarum Thomas Abbt the Count of Schaumburg- Lippe court, governmental and Consistorialrat and Patronus and took him with them to Bückeburg. Abbt accepted, although he had received the same calls to the University of Marburg as professor of mathematics and to the University of Halle as professor of philosophy.

On November 3, 1766 Thomas Abbt died of haemorrhoids in Biickeburg. A written heritage is located is part of the Prince of Schaumburg- Lippe Hausarchiv in the State Archives Biickeburg.

Works

  • Correspondences with Mendelssohn and Nicolai
  • Thoughts from the establishment of the first studies of a young gentleman from the state, Leipzig and Berlin 1767th ( digitized ULB Halle)
  • Fragment of Portuguese history, Berlin and Stettin 1770. ( Digitized version of the SUB )
  • About the friendships of women room
  • Investigate whether God had himself buried Moses (EA 1757)
  • From the influence of beauty on the stricter sciences
  • From the death for the fatherland (EA 1761)
  • From merits (EA 1765 )
  • From the certainty in sensual, theoretical and moral truths

Newer editions

  • Mixed works, reprint of the three - volume edition of Berlin and Stettin 1772-1782; Hildesheim, Olms 1978
  • From merits, reprint of Goslar and Leipzig in 1766; Scriptor, Königstein 1978 ISBN 3-589-15200-1
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