Karl Friedrich Bachmann

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Karl Friedrich Bachmann (born June 24, 1785 in Altenburg , † September 18, 1855 in Kreuznach ) was a German philosopher and mineralogist.

Life

Bachmann had attended the Altenburg grammar school and started studying theology at the University of Jena at Easter 1803 . During his studies, however, he was more interested in philosophical studies with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause . In 1806 he received his doctorate in philosophy, completed library studies in Dresden in 1807 and stayed in Heidelberg in 1808 , where he intended to do his habilitation. Nevertheless, he fell ill during this time, so that he had to abandon his plan. Instead, he took over a position as a private tutor in Belp near Bern and returned to Jena in 1810, where he qualified as a private lecturer. In 1812 he was given an extraordinary professorship in philosophy in Jena and in 1813 he was appointed full professor of politics and moral philosophy. After he had been appointed Hofrat von Sachsen-Altenburg in May 1829, he became director of the Grand Ducal Mineralogical and Zoological Museum in Jena in 1832 and in 1837 he was given the title of secret Hofrat.

In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the Salana. He was dean of the philosophical faculty and was rector of the alma mater in the summer semesters of 1824, 1828, 1838 and 1845 . He was also a Knight of the Order of the White Falcon . Bachmann had already become a member of the Latin Society as a student, he was also a member of the Mineralogical Society in Jena, a member of the Russian Imperial Mineralogical Society in St. Petersburg, the Royal Saxon Mineralogical Society in Dresden, the Public Society of Arts and Sciences in Utrecht, the Society of Arts and Sciences in Ghent, the Historical Institute in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Philadelphia and other learned societies and associations.

In 1855 he took a cure in Schlangenbad , where he sustained a head wound when he fell from a mule. Against the medical advice, he went back to Jena. During a stop in Kreuznach he suffered a stroke and died. Bachmann was initially a supporter of Hegel and in 1820 turned into a critic of his philosophy. From 1824 he published the mineralogical journal Hermes, made contributions to the General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts and wrote some papers in various scientific journals and journals of his time.

Works (selection)

  • Diss. Aesthetices apud Graecos vestigia quaerens. Jena 1811
  • Art history in its general outline for academic lectures. Jena 1811
  • About history of philosophy. Jena 1811, Jena 1820 ( online )
  • About philosophy and art. A fragment. Jena 1812 ( online )
  • Small philosophical writings. Jena 1812
  • Language of the conceptual confusion of German philosophers in understanding and reason. A program. Jena 1814
  • Diss. De peccatis Tennemanni in historia philosophiae conscribenda. Jena 1814 (Resp. Theodor Karl Schmidt)
  • About the philosophy of my time, to mediate. Jena 1816 ( online )
  • About the relationship between physics and psychology. Utrecht 1821 ( online )
  • Progr. Apospasmation ex historia philosophiae de obscuritate Heracliti. Pars I. Jena 1823
  • System of logic. A manual for self-study. Leipzig 1828 ( Online ), St. Petersburg 1831 (Russian: Всеобщее начертани е теори и искусств Бахмана. Online ), also: French
  • About Hegel's system and the necessity of a further transformation of philosophy. Leipzig 1833 ( online )
  • Anti-Hegel. Answer to Professor Rosenkranz in Konigsberg, to his letter, together with remarks on the review of my work on Hegel's system in Professor Hinrichs' Berlin yearbooks in Halle. Jena 1835 ( online )
  • About a dark side of our literature and about the determination of the university according to the statute of the University of Jena. Two Protectorate speeches. Darmstadt 1848 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Karl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachmann, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1855
Place of death Kreuznach