Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff

Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff (born October 18, 1782 in Berlin ; † February 15, 1863 there ) was a German philosophical writer.

Life

The son of a musician visited Trahndorff from his twelfth year at the school in Oels , where his father as director of the chapel of the Duke of Brunswick -Oels, I. Friedrich August , had been called. From 1801 he studied theology and philology in Königsberg and then worked his entire life as a high school teacher, mostly in Berlin .

Religious-philosophical classification

As a religious-philosophical writer, Trahndorff was one of the supranaturalists who, against theological rationalism , exaggerate the inevitability, supernaturalness and secrecy of religious revelation and - conversely - minimize the possibilities of human reason to understand the content of belief.

Trahndorff's polemical work Theos, not Cosmos! , with which he wanted to oppose the growing popularity of Alexander von Humboldt's work Kosmos , which he saw as incompatible with the Bible .

Trahndorff's work Aesthetics, or the theory of worldview and art, was particularly important for the Romantics and their conception of the “ total work of art ”. Trahndorff seems to have used this term for the first time.

Works

• The shield of St. Winfried , Berlin 1825
• Aesthetics or teaching of Weltanschauung and art 2 vols., Berlin 1827, ( digitized in the Google book search).
• About the Orestes of the old tragedy and the Hamlet of Shakespeare , Berlin 1833, ( digitized in the Google book search).
• How can supranaturalism assert its right against Hegel's philosophy of religion? , Berlin 1840, ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Schelling and Hegel or Hegel's system as the final result of the fundamental error in all previous philosophizing , Berlin 1842, ( digitized in the Google book search).
• The world historical doubt, or: Is God just an idea or an objective reality? , Barmen 1852, ( digitized in the Google book search).
• About the importance of Berlin in the great crisis of our time , Berlin 1852 ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Man, the image of the triune God. Attempt at a dogmatic correction , Berlin 1853, ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Theos, not cosmos! Memorandum as a testimony to the truth , Berlin 1859, ( digitized in the Google book search).

literature

• KFE Trahndorff: the consciousness philosopher. A contribution to the appreciation and appreciation of a faded name. Edited by Julius W. von Eckardt, Halle 1878.
• Otto Liebmann:  Trahndorff, Karl Friedrich Eusebius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 108 f.