Otto Liebmann

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Otto Liebmann , actually Friedrich Ernst Otto Liebmann , (born February 25, 1840 in Löwenberg , Silesia , † January 14, 1912 in Jena ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Otto was born the son of the politician Wilhelm Otto Liebmann and his wife Bertha Rosalie Wach (1817–1848). He attended school in Berlin , the Pforta state school and the Halle (Saale) school . He completed his studies from 1859 at the University of Jena , the University of Leipzig and the University of Halle-Wittenberg . During his studies in 1859 he became a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity . In 1864 he received his doctorate in philosophy with the treatise De Philosophandi Methodo Commentatio Germanice et Latine conscripta in Halle and completed his habilitation in 1866 at the University of Tübingen . In 1870/71 he took part in the Franco-German War as a volunteer . For his military activities he received the war commemorative coin and processed his experiences of that time in a literary way.

Returned to civilian life, he was an associate professor from 1872 and in 1878 he became a full professor of philosophy at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In the winter semester of 1882/83 he moved to the University of Jena in the same capacity , where he became director of the private philosophical seminar. In Jena he was rector of the Salana in the winter semester of 1889 , was appointed secret councilor of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and wrote a number of articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . He was also the commander of the Saxon-Ducal Order of White Falcons and first-class knights of the Duke of Saxony Ernestian House Order .

Liebmann was one of the founders of Neo-Kantianism . In Kant and the Epigones he defended Kant's philosophy against his successor; in particular, he deals critically with Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Jakob Friedrich Fries , Johann Friedrich Herbart and Arthur Schopenhauer .

The mathematician Heinrich Liebmann comes from his marriage to Julie Christine Neumann (born September 4, 1842 in Munich, † December 18, 1920 in Jena), the daughter of the orientalist Karl Friedrich Neumann , in Munich in 1871 . and the daughter Hedwig Liebmann (* 1872). Liebmann was buried in the north cemetery (Jena) .

Works (selection)

  • Kant and the Epigones Canstadt 1865; Berlin 1912; Erlangen 1991
  • About the individual proof of the freedom of will Stuttgart 1866
  • About the objective sight Wiesbaden 1869
  • Four months before Paris 1870 - 1871: Siege diary of a campaign volunteer in K. pr. Guard Fusilier Regiment. Stuttgart 1871; Munich 1896
  • For the analysis of reality Strasbourg 1876, Strasbourg 1880 ( online ); Strasbourg 1900; Strasbourg 1911;
  • Thoughts and facts. Strasbourg 1882–1904, 2nd vol. (1st vol. Online ;), etc.
  • On Philosophical Tradition Strasbourg 1883
  • The climax of theories. Strasbourg 1884; Strasbourg 1914; Hildesheim 2001
  • Psychological aphorisms. Leipzig 1892
  • World migration. Stuttgart 1899 (poems)
  • Immanuel Kant Strasbourg 1904; Prague 1944;
  • In Schiller's garden. Berlin 1905

literature

  • Peter Müller:  Liebmann, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 506-508 ( digitized version ).
  • Peter Müller: The logic of the facts. Otto Liebmann's draft of a "critical metaphysics", in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 98 (1991) 334-345.
  • Hermann A. Ludwig Degner: Who is it? Our contemporaries. Contemporary Lexicon. Degner, Leipzig, 1908, p. 814
  • Ernst Pilz: Lecturer album of the University of Jena, 1858 to 1908. Neuenhahn, Jena, 1908, p. 23
  • German Order Almanac. (OA) Berlin, 1908/09, Sp. 897 ( digitized version )
  • Hans Vaihinger , Bruno Bauch: For Otto Liebmann's 70th birthday. Reuther & Reichard publishing house, Berlin, 1910
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Reclam, Leipzig, 1913, vol. 4th, 6th ed., P. 255 ( online )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 121.
  2. ↑ Kant's Epigones were also the topic of the inaugural lecture by Rolf-Peter Horstmann : German Idealism - an uprising of the Epigones , Humboldt University Berlin , February 7, 1996.
  3. ↑ Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Liebmann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebmann, Friedrich Ernst Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Löwenberg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1912
Place of death Jena