Johann Christian August Grohmann

Johann Christian August Grohmann (born August 7, 1769 in Großkorbetha ; † July 3, 1847 in Dresden ) was a German philosopher, psychologist and rhetorician.

Life

As the son of a preacher, he attended school in Querfurt and in 1786 moved to the University of Leipzig , where he devoted himself to studying theology. Influenced by Ernst Platner he turns to philosophy and psychology and a doctorate in March 1790 to the doctor of philosophy.

He then went to Dresden to study art and completed his habilitation in 1792 at the University of Wittenberg , where he initially worked as a private lecturer. In 1798 he became associate professor of logic and librarian at the university library at the philosophical faculty and in 1802 full professor . During his time as a professor in Wittenberg, he developed a great deal of activity as an author, based on the principles of Immanuel Kant .

In 1810 he followed a call to the academic high school in Hamburg , where he took over the professorship of theoretical philosophy and rhetoric . Not quite as successful as in Wittenberg, he continued to deal with philosophical questions until he was retired in 1833. After moving to Dresden via Leipzig , he died at the age of 77.

Selection of works

• Ideas for a physiognomic anthropology, Dresden 1791
• De generationis atque temperamentorum legibus, 1792
• On the relationship between theory and practice, 1795
• New contributions to critical philosophy and especially to logic, 1796
• On the Concept of the History of Philosophy, 1797
• New contributions to critical philosophy and in particular to the history of philosophy, 1798
• About the principles of judgment of disclosure
• Main points of the Kantian and Fichtian philosophy, 1796
• Philosophical Treatises, 1796
• Critique of Christian Revelation, 1798
• On Mythology and Revelation, 1799
• Annals of the University of Wittenberg, 1801
• On the Relation of Criticism to Metacriticism, 1802
• The memory of Kant or the more recent philosophical systems presented in their correctness, 1804
• De recentissiame philosophiae vanitate, 1809
• Philosophy of Medicine, 1808
• On the philosophical and aesthetic culture of our age, 1810
• On higher religious belief, 1811
• What is German ?, 1813
• Hamburg's fate and Davoust, 1814
• Representation of the saint on the stage, 1816
• Physiology of Childhood, 1812
• Ideas for a History of Development of Childhood, 1817
• Aesthetics as Science, 1830
• On the Principle of Criminal Law, 1832
• Notices for the elucidation of criminal physiology and criminal law, 1833
• Christianity and Reason for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, 1835
• Philosophical ideas about the establishment of a reasonable criminal law for the purpose of the proposed criminal law for the Kingdom of Norway, 1836
• Studies of phrenology or Gall's skull theory, 1842
• Head forms of somnambulism, 1844

literature

• Carl von Prantl:  Grohmann, Christian August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 709-711.
• Werner Leibbrand:  Grohmann, Christian August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 119 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg . Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917.
• Matthias Wolfes :  GROHMANN, Johann Christian August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 563-572.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Christian August Grohmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Johann Christian August Grohmann  in the German Digital Library