Ernst Friedrich Apelt

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Ernst Friedrich Apelt (born March 3, 1812 in Reichenau , Kingdom of Saxony , † October 27, 1859 on his estate in Oppelsdorf in Upper Lusatia ) was a German philosopher and entrepreneur.

Life

The entrepreneur's son devoted himself to philosophical and mathematical studies from 1831, first with Jakob Friedrich Fries in Jena , then in Leipzig , completed his habilitation in Jena in 1839, became associate professor there in 1840 and full professor there in 1856.

After the death of his father, Apelt took over the management of the Friedrich Apelt lignite works in Oppelsdorf and built a vitriol plant in the village . The spa he built formed the basis for the later spa town of Bad Oppelsdorf.

Apelt was the most well-known representative of the Fries school and, after Fries' death, its center.

His main works are: "The Epochs of Human History" (Jena 1845–1846, 2 vols.); "Johann Kepler's Astronomical World View" (Leipzig 1849); "The Reformation of Astronomy" (Jena 1852); "The Theory of Induction" (Leipzig 1854); “Metaphysics” (Leipzig 1857); "Philosophy of Religion" (edited by Gustav Frank , Leipzig 1860).

His children from his marriage to Emilie von Otto (1823–1895) include the philologist and Plato translator Otto Apelt (1845–1932) and the lawyer Karl Alexander Apelt (1847–1912), whose son Willibalt Apelt (1877–1965) later was Minister of the Interior of Saxony.

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SURNAME Apelt, Ernst Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION philosophical writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenau in Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1859
Place of death Oppelsdorf