Johann Gottlieb Buhle

Johann Gottlieb Gerhard Buhle (born September 29, 1763 in Braunschweig ; † August 11, 1821 there ) was a German philosopher , philologist and historian of philosophy .

Life

Buhle grew up as the son of the medical doctor and scientific writer Christian August Buhle (1734-1807) in Braunschweig. He studied philosophy and philology in Helmstedt and Göttingen . In 1787 he began teaching in Göttingen as a professor of philosophy. From 1789 he was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1804 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the still young Moscow University. From 1811 he also appointed the office of librarian of the private library Katharina Pavlovna , the Grand Duchess of Russia . After he returned to Germany, he became a professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig in 1815 .

Of his writings, his eight-volume textbook on the history of philosophy , which was published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen between 1796 and 1804 , had a certain aftereffect. Many of his writings deal with Aristotle , with his main topics and methodological approaches being influenced by contemporary philosophy, such as Immanuel Kant . His work History of Modern Philosophy was placed on the index of forbidden books in 1820 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church .

Works (selection)

Outlines of a general encyclopedia of the sciences. 1790.
Textbook on the history of philosophy and a critical literature of the same. 8 volumes, 1796–1804.
Draft of a transcendental philosophy. 1798.
Textbook of natural law. 1799.
Ideas on law, morality and politics. 1799.
History of modern philosophy since the epoch of the restoration of the sciences. 6 volumes, 1800–1804.
About the origin and fate of the Rosicrucians and Freemasons. 1804.
An attempt at a critical literature on Russian history. 1810.
About the origin and life of the human race and the future lot after death. 1821.

literature

Angela Klein: Buhle, Johann Gottlieb Gerhard. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 112 .
Spehr: Buhle, Johann Gottlieb Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 509 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Gottlieb Buhle in the catalog of the German National Library
Writings by Buhle, Johann Gottlieb on orlabs.oclc.org
Wilt Aden Schröder : Biogram of Johann Gottlieb Buhle in the scholarly historical prosopography of the Teuchos Center

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 53.
↑ Buhle, Johann Gottlieb. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 172 (French, digitized ).

personal data
SURNAME	Buhle, Johann Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Buhle, Johann Gottlieb Gerhard; Buhle, Johannes Theophilus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher, philologist and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	August 11, 1821
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 53.

[2] Buhle, Johann Gottlieb. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 172 (French, digitized ).