Christian August Brandis
Christian August Brandis (born February 13, 1790 in Holzminden ; † July 21, 1867 in Bonn ) was a German philosopher and Prussian legation secretary .
Life
His father was the doctor and pharmacist Joachim Dietrich Brandis . After attending grammar schools in Holzminden and Kiel, from 1808 he studied first theology, then philology and philosophy at the University of Kiel . After receiving his doctorate in 1813, he was lecturer in philosophy in Copenhagen . In 1818 he was appointed private lecturer in Berlin, where he was appointed professor that same year. Three years later, in 1821, he moved to the University of Bonn . In 1826 he had a villa built for himself on the banks of the Rhine in front of the city on the so-called “Herrenmauer”, today's southeastern part of the city garden (demolished in 1905). In 1833/34 he was the rector of the university.
In 1836 the Ministry released Brandis from his duties in Greece, so that in the following year, 1837, he joined the Greek King Otto I as cabinet councilor for two years . After his release in 1839 he returned to Bonn.
Brandis gained a reputation as a historian of philosophy, one of the first to stand in the tradition of Friedrich Schleiermacher's hermeneutics . His estate is kept in the Bonn City Archives. Brandis is the father of the botanist Dietrich Brandis .
Fonts
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Communications about Greece . Publishing house FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1842.
- Vol. 1: Travel Sketches
- Vol. 2: On the history of the liberation war, according to Greek sources
- Vol. 3: Looks at the current state of the kingdom
- History of the developments in Greek philosophy and its aftermath in the Roman Empire . Berlin 1862 (available as a reprint from Olms Verlag).
- Handbook of the History of Greco-Roman Philosophy . Berlin 1835–1866 (available as a reprint from Olms Verlag).
literature
- Georg von Hertling : Brandis, Christian August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 245.
- Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), pp. 144–153. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian August Brandis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Christian August Brandis in the German Digital Library
- Christian August Brandis' membership entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 25, 2016.
- Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Christian August Brandis in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandis, Christian August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian legation secretary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holzminden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1867 |
| Place of death | Bonn |