Immanuel Carl Diez

Immanuel Carl Diez (born April 8, 1766 in Stuttgart , † June 1, 1796 in Vienna ) was a German theologian , philosopher and doctor .

Life

Immanuel Carl Diez first attended the Tübingen Latin School Schola Anatolica , then the monastery school Bebenhausen , where he was Hospes (guest) in the house of Joseph Schelling (1781–1783), before studying theology at the Tübingen monastery . There he passed the master’s examination in 1785 and the consistorial examination in 1788. He then worked as a vicar in Bebenhausen until autumn 1790, when he became a repetent (young lecturer) for theology - also at the Tübingen monastery . At this time he was in contact with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Friedrich Hölderlin , who were trained as theology students at the Tübingen monastery. Diez, an enthusiastic supporter of Immanuel Kant's philosophy and the liberal spirit of the French Revolution , introduced these students to the basic ideas of Kantian philosophy and the revolution. It can be assumed that he was instrumental in their turning away from theology and turning to plans for a new philosophy and a new idea of ​​God. Diez finally took leave of theology in 1791 and initially devoted himself to dealing with the philosophy of the Kantian Carl Leonhard Reinhold, which was just becoming known . He enrolled in medicine at the University of Jena in 1792 , where he belonged to Friedrich Schiller's table company. Discussions with Reinhold led to the fact that he revised his system concept.

Diez published two of his own papers on medical and pharmacological method problems. After graduating as Dr. med. In 1794 he wanted to continue his medical training in Vienna, but died there in 1796.

His significance for the history of philosophy lies less in his own writings, the most important of which have probably been lost, than in his influence on the early thought formation of Schelling, Hegel, and Holderlin as well as on Reinhold's self-revision. This influence and the person of Diez remained virtually unknown for more than 200 years. It was not until 1997 that important parts of Diez's correspondence and his philosophical drafts appeared in Dieter Henrich's edition , as far as they have survived.

Works

• About the method in drug theory , Jena 1793
• Rudimenta methodologiae medicae . Heerbrandt, Tübingen 1795 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

• Immanuel Carl Diez: Correspondence and Kantian writings: Founding knowledge in the crisis of faith in Tübingen – Jena (1790–1792) . Ed .: Dieter Henrich. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-91659-8 ( digitized version [accessed on April 3, 2013]).
• Christian Jakob Zahn: "... This is how the monastery did me some good" . Ed .: Michael Franz and Wilhelm G. Jacobs. Tübingen, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-86142-308-1 ( [1] [accessed on February 12, 2015]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Immanuel Carl Diez in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief treatise on life and work