Gottlieb Wilhelm Gerlach

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Gerlach , also: Johann Gottlieb Wilhelm Gerlach (born November 3, 1786 in Osterfeld (near Naumburg) , † October 1, 1864 in Halle (Saale) ), was a German philosopher and librarian.

Life

Gerlach attended the high school of the cathedral school in Naumburg , moved to the University of Wittenberg on May 8, 1807 , where he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree from the philosophical faculty on October 17, 1809 . After he had disputed on March 6, 1811 with the dissertation “De discrimine, quod intercedit inter Schellinglii et Plotini doctrinam de numine summo”, he was habilitated on March 8, 1811 as Magister legens.

In addition to his lectures, he took over the Wittenberg University Library as curator . In this capacity he transferred the entire library to Dresden when the military actions of the Wars of Liberation threatened Wittenberg. However, the library did not get to Dresden, but was held up by the French in Seusslitz and kept there on a manor nearby. Because he had worked to save the library, he was appointed senior librarian.

It was foreseeable that the Wittenberg Academy could no longer exist. Therefore, he went to Halle as early as 1816 to give private lectures. There he was appointed professor of philosophy at the merged University of Halle-Wittenberg on March 15, 1819 . Yet his outdated lectures were avoided by the students.

In his writings he turned against the idealism of Immanuel Kant and orientated himself on the facts of consciousness and feeling. He made significant use of the systems of Christian Wolff and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi . In 1826 and 1836 he administered the rectorate of the Halle university.

Selection of works

  • Instructions for a Purposeful Study of Philosophy with Respect to Its Relation to the Faculty Sciences, 1813
  • Outline of Fundamental Philosophy, 1816
  • Logic floor plan, 1817
  • Outline of the Philosophy of Religion, 1818
  • Outline of the Philosophical Virtue Doctrine, 1820
  • Outline of the Philosophical Legal Doctrine, 1824
  • Metaphysics floor plan, 1826
  • Textbook of the Philosophical Sciences, 1826
  • System of Philosophy, 1st T. 1843

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Gottlieb Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterfeld (near Naumburg)
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1864
Place of death Halle (Saale)