Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer
Parents' house in Marburg, where the former Bayrhoffer university book printer was located
Memorial plaque on the parental home

Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer (full name Karl August Theodor Otto Christian Bayrhoffer ; born October 14, 1812 in Marburg , † February 3, 1888 in Monroe ) was professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg and a freethinker .

Life

Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer studied philosophy at Marburg University and became a doctor and professor of philosophy. In 1828 he became a member of the old Marburg fraternity Germania . From the beginning he was a Hegelian and a member of free religious associations. In 1846 he was suspended from his professorship in philosophy. In 1847 he founded the Marburg Free Religious Community . During the so-called March Revolution , he took part in the First Democratic Congress in Frankfurt am Main (June 1848), where he was elected deputy member of the Central Committee. He was twice elected to the Electoral Hessian Estates Assembly, where he was on the extreme left. After the Bavarian troops captured Kurhessen , he was persecuted as a criminal, but escaped with his wife Julie Christine Charlotte, daughter of the Marburg theology professor Andreas Leonhard Creuzer , and six children to Switzerland , from where he emigrated to the United States in 1852 .

He bought a farm in the city of Jordan, Green County. His wife died in February 1853. In 1854 he married for the second time. His second wife Charlotte died in 1864, leaving him with a daughter and a son.

Bayrhoffer managed the farm for ten years until his now grown-up sons took over and gave him time for scientific work. He wrote articles for liberal German and English newspapers and magazines.

Works

  • The basic problems of metaphysics, presented as an attempt to solve them and published with an epistemological-metaphysical fragment (1835)
  • The concept of organic healing of the human being in relation to the healing methods of the present. In addition to a preview of the current crisis in world history (1837)
  • The Idea and History of Philosophy (1838)
  • Contributions to natural philosophy (1839)
  • The essence of the universe and the laws of humanism presented from the standpoint of reason (1871)

estate

The estate of Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer contains family correspondence, personal papers, files on his university and political activities and is stored in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg (inventory 340 Bayrhoffer). It has a circumference of 0.25 running meters and a running time from 1793 to 1851. The inventory has been fully developed and can be researched online.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 63-64.
  • Ewald Grothe (ed.): The members of the Electoral Hessian Estates Assemblies 1830–1866. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 13 = Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse . Vol. 43). Historical Commission for Hesse, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-942225-33-5 , number KSV-028.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 65.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 64.
  2. ↑ Overview of the Bayrhoffer estate  (HStAM inventory 340 Bayrhoffer). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), status: 2000, accessed on July 7, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Bayrhoffer, Karl Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bayrhoffer, Karl August Theodor Otto Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, professor of philosophy and free thinker
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1888
Place of death Monroe , California