Moriz Carrière

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Moriz Carriere

Moriz Philipp Carrière (also: Carriere ) (born March 5, 1817 in Griedel (in the Grand Duchy of Hesse ), † January 19, 1895 in Munich ) was a German writer and philosopher ( Hegelianism , theism ).

Life

Carrière studied in Gießen , Göttingen and Berlin and in 1844 became a member of the Allemannia Gießen fraternity . With Emanuel Geibel , Karl Grün , Karl Marx and others, he belonged to a poet's wreath . After his studies he went on a trip to Italy for a few years and then qualified as a professor for philosophy in Giessen, where he taught as an associate professor from 1849 . At the same time, he became editor of the Free Hessische Zeitung from March 1848 together with Carl Vogt . In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . From 1853 he taught for a year as an associate professor at the University of Munich, and then from 1854 as a full professor for art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . There he belonged with Emanuel Geibel to the literary society Die Krokodile .

Carrière was still strongly influenced by Hegel in his early work , then became a representative of the theism rooted in Hegelianism , such as Immanuel Hermann Fichte , Hermann Ulrici and Christian Hermann Weisse and others. a. taught.

As a philosopher, Carrière, along with Immanuel Hermann Fichte , Weisse , Wirth and others, was one of the founders of a theistic worldview that sought to overcome the contradictions of deism and pantheism . In their spirit, his main writings are Die philosophische Weltanschauung der Reformationszeit (Stuttgart 1847), Religious Speeches and Considerations for the German People by a German Philosopher (Leipzig 1850, anonymous; 2nd edition 1856), The essence and forms of poetry (das . 1854, 2nd ed. 1884), Aesthetics (das. 1859, 2 vol .; 3rd ed. 1884) and Art in the context of cultural development and the ideals of humanity (das. 1863–74, 5 vol .; 3 . Ed. 1876 ff.). Of the last-named rich and large-scale work, the first volume covers Oriental antiquity, the second Hellas and Rome, the third the Eastern and Western Middle Ages, the fourth the Renaissance and the fifth the modern times in religion and wisdom, art and poetry . He also explained Wilhelm von Kaulbach 's Shakespeare Gallery (Berlin 1856–58).

He excelled as a sensitive collector in his edification book for thinkers (Frankf. 1858), as a warm feeling national politician in his character picture Cromwell's (1851) and in his speech On the moral world order (Munich 1870). His book The Moral World Order , published in Leipzig in 1877, offers a comprehensive presentation with special consideration of the ethical-religious worldview and, with its nobility of disposition and warmth of tone, is often reminiscent of Fichte's speeches to the German nation .

As a poet, he has appeared with a collection of poems under the title Agnes (Leipzig 1883) dedicated to his wife, a daughter of Justus von Liebig , which contains, among other things, fragments of his epic Muhamed and the poem The Last Night of the Girondins , published in 1849 (Gießen) . Carrière's collected works were published in 1886–94 in 14 volumes in Leipzig.

From 1889 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Among his descendants are the actors Till , Mareike and Mathieu Carrière .

tomb

Grave of Moritz Carriere in the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Moritz Carriere is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 40 - number 12 - Place 10/11) Location . Due to the family ties, members of the Liebig and Carriere families are in the grave. The bust shows Justus von Liebig and was created by Michael Wagmüller .

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Works (selection)

  • From the mind. Sword and handshake for Franz Baader , Weilburg 1841
  • Religion in its concept, its world-historical development and perfection , Weilburg 1841
  • The Cologne Cathedral as a free German Church , Stuttgart 1843
  • Abälard and Heloise , Stuttgart 1843, Gießen 1853 (2nd edition)
  • German spiritual heroes in Alsace , Munich 1871
  • The moral world order , Leipzig 1877

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 165.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Wördehoff: The only thing that helps is ridicule! Die Zeit, March 21, 2002, accessed January 24, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Carrière, Moriz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carrière, Moriz Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Griedel , (Grand Duchy of Hesse )
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1895
Place of death Munich