Hermann von Leonhardi

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Peter Carl Pius Gustav Hermann Freiherr von Leonhardi (born March 12, 1809 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 21, 1875 in Prague ) was a German philosopher and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is “ Leonh. "

origin

He comes from the Frankfurt banking family Leonhardi . His parents were Karl von Leonhardi (* April 7, 1781; † February 18, 1864) and his wife Maria Anna Mülbens (* October 23, 1782; † April 26, 1825). His father had emigrated to Bohemia, where he bought the people of Platz (Straz) and Erdreichsthal.

Life

Leonhardi was a student and son-in-law of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), whose handwritten estate he edited. With Heinrich Ahrens (1808–1874) and Karl David August Röder (1806–1879) he belonged to the inner circle of the Krauseschülsen. From 1842 Leonhardi was a private lecturer in Heidelberg, where Julián Sanz del Río (1814–1869) heard from him. In 1849 he took over a professorship for philosophy at the University of Prague . There he published the magazine Die Neue Zeit and organized philosophers' congresses. He was friends with Friedrich Froebel and worked closely with Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow and Louise Otto-Peters . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

In botany, Leonhardi mainly did algae studies, often together with the botanist Alexander Braun .

In addition, he was involved in the free religious movement ; he could not get his way with his ideas of social reformation.

family

He married Maria Sidonie Krause on October 19, 1841 (born August 14, 1810). She remained childless.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • The new time. Free booklets for united higher education in science and life, dedicated to the educated of all classes, ed. v. Hermann von Leonhardi, 4 vols., Prague 1869–75
  • Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's life and teaching, from the handwritten estate of the author, ed. Paul Hohlfeld and August Wünsche, Leipzig 1902
  • The Philosophers' Congress as a Council of Reconciliation - Contribution to a Solution to the Religious Question of Time, Prague 1869
  • Waving to criticize Hegel on the occasion of the unscientific arrogance of Mr. G in the Prussian State Newspaper, Munich 1832
  • Preliminary report to Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's lectures on the pure di general philosophy of history, Göttingen 1843
  • The Austrian candelabrum from the morphogenetic point of view, Prague 1864
  • About plant and animal systematics. In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Association, Vienna 1857, 153–162
  • About the Bohemian Characeae. In: Lotos (1863) volume 13, 55-62, 68-80, 110, 111
  • More Characeae sites. In: Lotos (1863) Vol. 13, 129-32, 145-8
  • Sentences from theoretical and practical philosophy. - Renewed Critique of Reason, 1869

literature

  • Carl von Prantl:  Leonhardi, Hermann Karl Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 311 f.
  • Meyers Konversationslexikon , Leipzig and Vienna 1885–92, Vol. 10, 4th ed., 697 f.
  • Enrique Urena: The Krausereception in Germany in the 19th Century , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7728-2349-7
  • Christine Susanne Rabe: Equality of man and woman: the Krause School and the bourgeois women's movement in the 19th century , Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-08306-9
  • Carus, Carl Gustav: Memoirs and Memories , 2 volumes, 2nd volume, Weimar 1966, 276
  • Heinrich Oppermann: Hundred Years , Frankfurt am Main 1998 (eA 1870), chap. 62 and 88
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1873, p.390

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Christine Susanne Rabe: Equivalence of man and woman: the Krause school and the bourgeois women's movement in the 19th century . Böhlau Verlag 2006. Dissertation. (Leonhardi p. 52ff., Röder p. 56ff., Ahrens p. 70ff .; Chapter 3: Cooperation between the Krause students )
  2. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  3. ↑ www.algaebase.org
personal data
SURNAME Leonhardi, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonhardi, Peter Carl Pius Gustav Hermann Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1875
Place of death Prague