Gustav Glogau

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Gustav Glogau (born June 6, 1844 in Laukischken , Labiau district , East Prussia , † March 22, 1895 in Lavrio , Greece ) was a German philosopher.

life and work

Glogau attended the grammar school in Tilsit . In 1863 he passed the school leaving examination. He first entered the Military Medical Academy in Berlin , but changed his subject after a year. From 1864 he studied philology, philosophy and history with August Boeckh , Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg and Heymann Steinthal in Berlin. In 1869 Glogau received his doctorate with a treatise on the Aristotelian terms of the μεσότης ( Mesotes ) and the ὀρϑὸς λόγος (orthos logos) .

Glogau was seriously wounded near Beaumont in the Franco-German War in 1870 . After his recovery, he passed the Prussian senior teacher examination in Halle in 1871 and taught there at the Francke Foundations . He then took up a senior teaching position at the Progymnasium in Neumark, West Prussia .

In 1876 he then moved to the grammar school in Winterthur . From there he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich with a lecture on psychological mechanics . He soon received approval to give lectures there and was appointed professor there in 1892.

Glogau gave the first compressed representation of his thought structure in the work Basic Concepts of Metaphysics and Ethics in the Light of Modern Psychology (Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie, Volume 10). In this work he took into account on the one hand the importance of the new theory of descent and the German idealism of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the other. Building on this, he published the first volume of his main work, Outline of the Philosophical Basic Sciences , in 1880 . The second volume of the work then appeared eight years later under the title The essence and basic forms of the conscious mind . In the meantime, the ethical and religious dimensions had come to the fore in Glogau's speculative thinking. His phenomenological representation leads to the representation of the highest being as the source of the real, which ultimately reveals the substance of God.

In 1883 Glogau was appointed associate professor in Halle and from there one year later moved to the University of Kiel as full professor . There he read the subject of religious philosophy.

Glogau died on March 22, 1895 in an accident on a study trip to Greece in Lavrio. Outlines of his systematic teaching can be inferred from the work Logic and Science Theory, published in 1894 .

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  1. ↑ The article is based on the article: Siebeck, H .: "Glogau, Gustav" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 49 (1904), pp. 394–397 [online version].
personal data
SURNAME Glogau, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Laukischken ( Labiau district , East Prussia )
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1895
Place of death Lavrio (Greece)