Leopold von Henning
Leopold August Wilhelm Dorotheus von Henning (actually from Henning auf Schönhoff ; * October 4, 1791 in Gotha , † October 5, 1866 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher.
Life
His parents were the Saxon Colonel Christian Wilhelm Sigismund von Henning (1748-1809) and his wife Wilhelmine Sophie von Selchow (1765-1821). Henning studied history, law and philosophy in Heidelberg , then (after participating in the liberation wars and a stay in London ) economics in Vienna . In 1815 he began his legal clerkship in Königsberg in the Neumark ; after renewed war service he had a clerkship in Erfurt held and finally lived from 1818 in Berlin, where he became followers of just at the Berlin University appointed Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was. At Hegel's request, he received a position as a repetitionist for Hegelian philosophy at the university in July 1820 and received his doctorate in 1821.
In 1823, Henning married Emilie Krutisch (1805-1853). The couple had three sons and seven daughters, including Laura von Henning (1826–1911), who married the lawyer Berthold Delbrück (1817–1868) and the mother of the historian Hans Delbrück (1848–1929) and the chemist Max Delbrück (1850–1850). 1919) was.
In 1825 Henning was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the Berlin University, and in 1835 he was given a full professorship. From 1827 he was editor of the year books for scientific criticism ("Berlin year books"), which became the most influential journal of the Hegelians in the following 20 years. After Hegel's death, von Henning edited the three volumes on logic within the Complete Edition of Hegel's Works.
In a document from 1839 he was named as one of the owners of the Henningshof in Wandersleben , the ancestral home of his ancestors.
literature
- Carl von Prantl : Henning, Leopold Dorotheus (called von Schönhoff) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 777 f.
- Hans-Martin Saß: Henning, August Wilhelm Dorotheus von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 546 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Lore Schmidt-Delbrück: Leopold von Henning. 1791 - 1866. A life report compiled from old letters and documents , self-published with typewriter, hectographed, Berlin 1961
Web links
- Leopold von Henning at online-ofb.de
- Literature by and about Leopold von Henning in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on the death of Colonel Henning in Tirol in 1809, in Joseph Rapp: Tirol in the year 1809: depicted according to documents , p. 499, digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henning, Leopold von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leopold von Henning on Schönhoff |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1866 |
| Place of death | Berlin |