Johann Ulrich Wirth

Wirth's birthplace in Ditzingen

Johann Ulrich Wirth (born April 17, 1810 in Ditzingen , † March 20, 1879 in Winnenden ) was a Protestant theologian and philosopher .

Life

Wirth was a son of the butcher and lamb host of the same name Johann Ulrich Wirth in Ditzingen and his wife Christina Margaretha, née. Rake. He attended the Latin school in Weinsberg and the Protestant theological seminar in the Schöntal monastery . After studying philosophy and theology in Tübingen , he became parish priest in Kleingartach , and from 1842 in Winnenden.

In 1841 Wirth was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1852 he edited the magazine for philosophy and philosophical criticism . Wirth was committed to Hegelianism in its variant of speculative theism , as represented above all by Immanuel Hermann Fichte , Hermann Ulrici and Christian Hermann Weisse . He became known together with Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius , Albert Bitzius and Franz Xaver Linsenmann as one of the few opponents of the death penalty of his time.

As a pastor in Winnenden, Wirth published the history of the city of Winnenden and the surrounding areas , written by David Pistorius .

Works

• Theory of Somnambulism or Animal Magnetism. An attempt to illuminate and explain the mysteries of magnetic life, the rapport of the somnambulas with the magnetizer, their distant faces and premonitions, and their intercourse with the spirit world from the standpoint of unbiased criticism for the educated in general, and for mediciners and theologians in particular , 1836
• System of speculative ethics , Heilbronn 1841 to 1842, 2 volumes
• The speculative idea of ​​God , Stuttgart 1845
• Philosophical studies , Stuttgart 1851

literature

• Wirth, Johann Ulrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 533 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Church book Ditzingen, baptism No. 14/1810