Georg Burckhardt (philosopher)

Georg Burckhardt 1590 as "Professor DialeIecticus", oil painting by Anton Ramsler in the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Georg Burckhardt (born January 5, 1539 in Wettelsheim / Franconia ; † February 6, 1607 in Wildbad near Mörnsheim ) was a German philosopher and professor of logic and rhetoric at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Life

Former home:
Haaggasse 19 in Tübingen

Georg Burckhardt was born in Wettelsheim , now part of Treuchtlingen ( Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district ). He was the son of Heinrich Burckhardt, who worked as Vogt for the Ansbach Hohenzollern in the Wettelsheim office. Burckhardt's mother was Eva Widmann, who came from a Protestant family. Burckhardt's younger brother Johannes later became abbot. Georg Burckhardt became a teacher of classical philology at the Latin school in Rothenburg ob der Tauber after completing his studies . From 1575 to 1578 he was the principal of the Latin school in Rothenburg.

In 1578 Georg Burckhardt accepted a call to the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen for the chair for rhetoric and logic. In Tübingen he moved into a stately house in Haaggasse, in which he lived from now on with his large family and in which many students also found lodging. During Georg Burckhardt's almost 30-year tenure as professor, there are said to have been 265 students.

Marriages and offspring

Georg Burckhardt was married twice. A total of 23 children resulted from the two marriages.

The first marriage was with Anna Krebel in 1560. Anna Krebel was born in Weißenburg and died in Tübingen in 1591. The poet Eduard Mörike is one of the descendants of this marriage .

In 1592 Georg Burckhardt married Sabine Magdalena nee Firck (* 1564 in Stuttgart-Gablenberg , † 1651 in Tübingen). One son from this marriage was Andreas Burckhardt (1594–1651), Chancellor of the Duchy of Württemberg . The youngest daughter Regina (1599–1669) is from a genealogical point of view a "Swabian spiritual mother": From her marriage to the doctor Carl Bardili eleven children were born, whose descendants are the Swabian poets Hölderlin , Uhland and Hauff , the philosophers Hegel and Schelling as well the pietistic revival preacher Ludwig Hofacker count.

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• Hanns Wolfgang Rath: Regina, the Swabian spirit mother , reprint of the 1st edition Ludwigsburg / Leipzig 1927. Newly edited, supplemented and expanded by Hansmartin Decker-Hauff , Starke, Limburg 1981.