Johann Heinrich Witte

This article deals with the philosopher and philologist Johann Heinrich Witte. For information on lawyers and Romanists, see Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte .

Johann Heinrich Witte (born November 14, 1846 in Berlin , † January 31, 1908 in Prussian Friedland ) was a German philosopher , educator and district school inspector.

Life

Witte was a son of the police assessor Ferdinand Heinrich Theodor Witte and his wife Henriette Magenhöfer. He had at least two siblings, an older sister and a brother. In the years 1859 to 1866 Witte attended the " Royal High School for the Gray Monastery in Berlin ". On April 21, 1866, Witte matriculated at the University of Heidelberg in Philology . In the period from 1866 to 1869 he studied in Berlin.

In 1872 Witte received his doctorate in Halle with the dissertation "De indole atque origine Odysseae Homericae". On July 20, 1874, Witte was admitted to the habilitation at the University of Bonn , where he completed his habilitation on October 26, 1874 with the lecture "About the understanding of Fichte's ethics to Kant's". After his habilitation, Witte became a member of the University of Bonn, and in 1883 he was appointed associate professor. In 1888 he published an essay entitled “The establishment of pedagogical professorships”. Due to the order of the Ministry of Culture, Witte was assigned the district school inspection district Ruhrort with the function of district school inspector with effect from May 3, 1889 .

From 1893 he was district school inspector in Lennep -Remscheid, in 1897 district school inspector in Thorn . In 1898 Witte joined the Copernicus Society in Thorn, gave several lectures there and left the society in 1901. In 1906 he took over the office of the Thorner Inspectorate, then the district of Preussisch Friedland , whereby the district school inspector, Schulrat Katluhn, was transferred from Prussian Friedland to Thorn.

In 1880 Witte married Louise, b. Endemann (* 1860 in Fulda). From this marriage the children Willy (* 1882) and Otto (* 1885 in Bonn), Kätchen (* 1892 in Ruhrort) and, Carl-Heinrich-Julius (* 1894 in Lennep) emerged.

Fonts

• Contributions to the understanding of Kant. Berlin 1874 ( digitized version )
• Salomon Maimon: the strange fates and the scientific significance of a Jewish thinker from the Kantian school. Berlin 1876
• Preliminary studies for the knowledge of inexperienced being: Philosophical treatises with speculative and historical-critical content. Issue 1, Bonn 1876
• On epistemology and ethics: 3 philosophical treatises. Berlin 1877 ( digitized version )
• About clarity in the senses and clarity in thinking. Berlin 1879
• The philosophy of our poet heroes: A contribution to the history of German idealism. Bonn 1880
• Lessing and Herder. Bonn 1880
• Principles of Moral Doctrine: A Compendium of Moral Philosophy. Bonn 1882
• On freedom of will, moral life and its laws: a contribution to the reform of epistemology, psychology and moral philosophy. Bonn 1882 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
• Kantian criticism versus uncritical amateurism. Bonn 1885 ( digitized version )
• The essence of the soul and the nature of spiritual processes: in the light of philosophy since Kant and its fundamental theories; historically and critically presented. Bonn 1888 ( digitized version )
• Sensing and thinking: Collected treatises and lectures from the fields of literature, philosophy and pedagogy as well as their history. Halle ad Saale 1889 ( digitized version )
• Dr. Dittes and his ideal: The non-confessional elementary school. Ruhrort 1890
• Johann Amos Comenius: in its cultural-historical position and its historical significance for the development of the school system, in particular the elementary school. Ruhrort: Andreae 1892 ( digitized version )
• Elementary school and auxiliary school: through support for the weak within the framework of normal elementary school. Thorn 1901

literature

• German Biographical Archive . Saur, Munich III 1001, 344
• Otto Wenig: Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968. Bouvier, Bonn 1968, p.?.
• Ireneus Lakowski: Witte - opponent of the auxiliary school movement or advocate of integrative pedagogy? In: Journal for curative education. Vol. 50. Munich 1999, ISSN  0513-9066 , pp. 332-338.