Ferdinand Jakob Schmidt

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Ferdinand Jakob Schmidt (born December 20, 1860 in Mettlach , † March 4, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher and educator.

Life

Schmidt lost his father, Ferdinand Schmidt, at the age of six. He attended the grammar school in Landsberg (Warthe) , after his parents moved to Berlin, the Friedrichwerder grammar school , which he left with the Abitur in 1882. He then studied first theology, then philosophy at the Berlin University. Here he became a member of the Thuringia Landsmannschaft . He completed his studies in 1888 with a doctorate. The subject of the dissertation was Herder's pantheistic worldview . His teachers were in particular Wilhelm Dilthey , Erich Schmidt and Ludwig Geiger . He was brought to philosophical neo-Hegelianism by Adolf Lasson .

In 1906 he became a senior teacher at the Dorotheen Lyceum in Berlin. From 1906 to 1913 he was director of the Margarethen-Lyceum in Berlin-Mitte Ifflandstrasse 9-11 and in 1913, against the will of the faculty, he was appointed honorary professor of education at the Berlin University. From 1916 to 1918 he was involved in the Fichte Society from 1914 .

The Germanist Wieland Schmidt was his son.

Fonts

  • Herder's pantheistic worldview . Mayer & Müller, Berlin 1888
  • The nuisance of philosophy. A Kant study . Gaertner, Berlin 1897
  • Fundamentals of the constitutive philosophy of experience as the theory of immanent experience monism . Behr, Berlin 1901
  • The decline of Protestantism . A study of the philosophy of religion. Weidmann, Berlin 1904
  • To the rebirth of idealism . Dürr, Leipzig 1908
  • The Christ of faith and the Jesus of history, together with a religious-philosophical treatise on the church . Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1910
  • The world historical mission of Protestantism . Berlin-Schöneberg: Protestant Font Distribution, 1910
  • The problem of the national unified school . Diederichs, Jena 1916
  • The de-Christianization of the school . Hutten, Berlin 1919
  • Representation of the people and school policy . Reimer, Berlin 1919
  • Kant, the spiritual herald of a new era of humanity . Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1924

literature

  • Paul Natorp : The unified school. A discussion with Prof. Ferdinand Jakob Schmidt . Union Deutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1916

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Mechow: Renowned CCER . Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, p. 239.
  2. ↑ Latin Vita in the appendix to the dissertation
  3. ↑ Peter Hoeres: War of the Philosophers , Paderborn 2004, p. 246

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Ferdinand Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettlach
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1939
Place of death Berlin