Christian August Crusius

Christian August Crusius, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth (1747) after a painting by Elias Gottlob Haußmann

Christian August Crusius (born June 10, 1715 in Leuna , † October 18, 1775 in Leipzig ) was a German philosopher and Protestant theologian.

Life

He was the son of a pastor and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Leipzig , where he became an associate professor of philosophy in 1744 and a full professor of theology in 1750. Alongside Johann Franz Buddeus , he became one of the sharpest opponents of Gottfried Leibniz 's and Christian Wolff's philosophy . Against this he advocated a unity of positive revelation and reason and rejected the ontological proof of God . It was not appreciated until late by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg and Franz Delitzsch . In 1767 he was the first Leipzig professor to take over the tutorial post of president in the Wendische Prediger-Gesellschaft zu Leipzig (the later Landsmannschaft Sorabia) founded in 1716 and reorganized it: In addition to the Wendish sermons, the members were to give lectures on other Wendish topics and talk about them change.

Crusius exerted influence on the Kantian philosophy, although Kant ultimately rejected many Crusian elements of thought.

literature

Magdalene Benden: Christian August Crusius: Will and understanding as principles of action. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1972, ISBN 3-416-00796-4 .
Giorgio Tonelli: Crusius, Christian August . In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy , ed. by Paul Edwards. New York: Macmillan, 1967, Vol. 2, pp. 268-271.
Arthur Richter: Crusius, Christian August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 630 f.
Hans Saring: Crusius, Christian August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 432 f. ( Digitized version ).
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Crusius, Christian August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1174. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
E. Schwarz, Paul Tschackert : Crusius, Christian August . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 4, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1898, pp. 344-345.
Johann Jakob Haid: New collection of portraits, more learned about the church, about the common being and about the realm of science of deserving living men . Augsburg 1757 ( ora-web.swkk.de ).
Henry Sturt: Crusius, Christian August . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 7 : Constantine Pavlovich - Demidov . London 1910, p. 552 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Wikisource: Christian August Crusius - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Christian August Crusius in the catalog of the German National Library
Christian August Crusius in the Internet Archive
The Birth of Ontology. A selection of Ontologists from 1560 to 1770
Christian August Crusius in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

^ Giorgio Tonelli: Kant's Ethics as a Part of Metaphysics: A Possible Newtonian Suggestion? with Some Comments on Kant's “Dreams of a Seer” . In: Craig Walton (Ed.): Philosophy and the Civilizing Arts: Essays Presented to Herbert W. Schneider . Athens 1974, p. 255.

personal data
SURNAME	Crusius, Christian August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leuna
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1775
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Giorgio Tonelli: Kant's Ethics as a Part of Metaphysics: A Possible Newtonian Suggestion? with Some Comments on Kant's “Dreams of a Seer” . In: Craig Walton (Ed.): Philosophy and the Civilizing Arts: Essays Presented to Herbert W. Schneider . Athens 1974, p. 255.