Georg Gustav Fülleborn
Georg Gustav Fülleborn (born March 2, 1769 in Groß-Glogau , † February 6, 1803 in Breslau ) was a German writer , philologist and philosopher of the German Late Enlightenment , who, as a popular philosopher, mainly made contributions to the theory of the history of philosophy .
Life
Fülleborn, the son of a Court and Criminal council, attended the evangelical school in Gross-Glogau and then studied in Halle at Friedrich August Wolf Classical Philology , continue to theology and attracted by Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason philosophy . In 1789 he was with the work "De Xenophane, Zenone et Gorgia" PhD and then continued his studies in his hometown, where he 1791 Deacon was appointed to the Lutheran Church. In the same year he received a position as professor of classical languages at the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau. He was a member of the Breslau Masonic Lodge Friedrich zum Golden Scepter . Fülleborn died of heart failure at the age of thirty-three.
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Fülleborn became particularly well-known for the magazine he edited, “Contributions to the History of Philosophy” , which appeared in twelve volumes from 1791 to 1799 and for which he wrote the majority of the articles. Other authors were: Carl Leonhard Reinhold , Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer , Friedrich Karl Forberg , Friedrich August Carus and Christian Garve . Fülleborn added a comment to Garve's translation of Aristotle's Politics .
On philological topics he published a short theory of the Latin style (1793), the Encyclopaedia philologica sive primae lineae Isagoges in antiquorum studia (1798, new edition 1805) and a guide to rhetoric (1802), and he also gave notes on the satires of Persius out.
Fülleborn was also successful as an author of entertaining pamphlets such as Bunte Blätter (1795), Kleine Schriften zur Entertainment (1798) and ancillary hours (1799). The paperback for fountain guests (1806) and the pulpit speeches (1807) were published posthumously .
literature
- Hermann Palm: Fülleborn, Georg Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 194 f.
- Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 3. Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1916, Vol. 4, Section 1. P. 623 f.
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| SURNAME | Fülleborn, Georg Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Edelwald, Justus (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, philologist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groß-Glogau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1803 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |