Adolphe Franck

Adolphe Franck (1878)

Adolphe Franck (born October 9, 1809 in Liocourt , Moselle department , † April 11, 1893 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and philosopher.

Adolphe Franck, a son of Jewish parents, studied in Nancy and Toulouse . He came in 1840 as a professor of philosophy at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris and in 1844 became a member of the institute and professor of classical languages ​​at the Collège de France . After a visit to Italy in 1843 he began his main work, the Dictionnaire des Sciences Philosophiques (1843–49, 6 vols .; 2nd edition in 1 vol. 1875), for which he himself wrote numerous and important articles. In 1852 Franck received the chair of natural and international law at the Collège de France. From 1850 he was a member of the highest educational authority. Franck founded the Ligue Nationale contre l'Athéisme .

Works

• Esquisses d'une histoire de la logique (1838);
• La kabbale ou La philosophie religieuse des Hébreux (1843; German: Die Kabbala or the philosophy of religion of the Hebrews , transferred by Adolf Jellinek , Leipzig 1844), Reprint Amsterdam 1990.
• Le communisme jugé par l'histoire depuis son origine jusqu'en 1871 (1849, 3rd edition 1871);
• Études orientales (1861, a polemic against pantheism );
• Réformateurs et publicistes de l'Europe dixseptième siècle .
• Réformateurs et publicistes de l'Europe: moyen âge, renaissance (1863);
• Philosophy du droit pénal (1864, 2nd ed. 1880);
• Philosophy du droit ecclésiastique (1864);
• La philosophie mystique en France à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: Saint Martin et son maître Martinez Pasqualis (1866);
• Philosophy et religion (1867, 2nd edition 1869);
• Morale pour tous (6th ed. 1883);
• Moralistes et philosophes (1871, 2nd ed. 1874):
• Éléments de morale (7th ed. 1881);
• Philosophes modern étrangers et français (1879);
• Réformateurs et publicistes de l'Europe 18th siècle (1881);
• Essais de critique philosophique . (1885);
• Des rapports de la religion et de l'état . (1885);
• Philosophy du droit civil (1886);
• Nouvelles études orientales . (1896);
• Esquisse d'une Histoire de la logique précédée d'une analyze étendue de l'Organum d'Aristote . (1898).

In addition, Franck was editor of the Dictionnaire des sciences philosophiques (1843–49, 6 vols .; 2nd edition in 1 vol. 1875), for which he himself wrote numerous and important articles.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolphe Franck in the catalog of the German National Library