Otto Caspari

Portrait of Prof. Otto Caspari

Otto Caspari (born May 24, 1841 in Berlin , † August 28, 1917 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian and philosopher .

Life

After studying in Berlin , Greifswald and Göttingen , he was at the University of Göttingen to Dr. phil. PhD . During his studies in 1861 he became a member of the Rugia Greifswald fraternity . After completing his studies, he completed his habilitation in 1869 at Heidelberg University , where he was appointed associate professor of philosophy. In addition to Ernst Krause and Gustav Jäger, he worked as editor and co-editor of the magazine Kosmos , which was dedicated to the popularization of the Darwinian worldview. In Heidelberg he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Ruprecht zu den five Rosen ; he was also a member of the Goethe Bund .

Friedrich Nietzsche received Capari's research in the area of epistemology as well as in the area of prehistory and early history intensively and processed it in his own works.

Works (selection)

The Errors of the Classical Philosophers in Their Significance for the Philosophical Principle , Heidelberg 1868
The psychophysical movement with regard to the nature of its substrate. A critical investigation as a contribution to empirical psychology , Leipzig 1869
Leibniz 'philosophy, illuminated from the point of view of the basic physical concepts of force and matter. A historical contribution to modern philosophy and the history of science , 1870
The prehistory of mankind: With regard to the natural development of the earliest spiritual life , 1873
Virchow and Haeckel in front of the Forum for Methodological Research , 1878
The problem of knowledge. With regard to the schools currently in power , 1881
The Connection of Things , 1881
Hermann Lotze in his position on the most recent history of philosophy founded by Kant. A critical historical study , 1883
The importance of Freemasonry for spiritual life , Berlin 1916

literature

Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 .
Caspari, Otto. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 21-23.

Web links

Commons : Otto Caspari - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 30.
^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 361-365, 480 .
↑ Andreas Urs Sommer : Commentary on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works, ed. from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Vol. 5/1, Berlin / Boston 2016, pp. 18, 177, 381, 599, 680 u. 734

personal data
SURNAME	Caspari, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1917
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 30.

[2] Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 361-365, 480 .

[3] Andreas Urs Sommer : Commentary on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil = historical and critical commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's works, ed. from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Vol. 5/1, Berlin / Boston 2016, pp. 18, 177, 381, 599, 680 u. 734