Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs

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Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs (born April 22, 1794 or 1797 in Karlseck, parish Hohenkirchen , today municipality Wangerland , district of Friesland ; † September 17, 1861 in Friedrichroda ) was a Protestant theologian, German philosopher and political writer.

Life

Hinrichs was born as the son of Pastor Ulrich Wilhelm Hinrichs and Sophie Dorothea. Ewen was born. He attended high school in Jever , studied in Strasbourg theology , then in Heidelberg philosophy under Hegel that his writing The religion in the inner relationship to science initiated (Heidelberg 1822) with a preface.

After Hinrichs had completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1819, he became an associate professor in Breslau in 1822, and a full professor of philosophy in Halle in 1824, where he learned from his basic principles of the philosophy of logic (Halle 1826) and the genesis of knowledge (Heidelberg 1835, vol. 1 ) became a main representative of the Orthodox-Hegelian direction.

In his aesthetic writings, lectures on Goethe's Faust (Halle 1825) and Schiller's poems based on their historical context (Leipzig 1837–39, 2 vol.), Hinrichs dealt with the content of classical poems according to Hegelian categories.

His history of legal and state principles from the Reformation to the present (Leipzig 1848–52, 3 vols.) Is valuable as a collection of materials; His attempt to present the various historically occurring forms of kingship as moments of modern (Prussian) in the work The Kings (2nd ed. 1853) found, like the previous Political Lectures (Halle 1843, 2 vols.), only in the conservative one Party appeal.

His last work, Life in Nature (Halle 1854), was intended as a forerunner of a larger work on the history of the earth. However, Hinrichs died before his plan was completed.

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  1. 1797 according to the NDB, 1794 is mentioned in ADB, BBKL and Meyers.