Robert von Zimmermann

Robert von Zimmermann (born November 2, 1824 in Prague , Austrian Empire , † September 1, 1898 ibid) was an aesthetician and philosophical writer.

Life

Robert Zimmermann studied philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences at the Universities of Prague and Vienna . At the age of 23, Zimmermann became an assistant at the Vienna University Observatory in 1847 . Two years later he was promoted to private lecturer in philosophy and in 1850 he accepted an appointment as associate professor for the same discipline at the University of Olomouc .

In 1852 Zimmermann was appointed full professor of philosophy at Charles University in Prague, where he held a chair until 1861. In the summer of 1861 Zimmermann accepted a position at the University of Vienna, where he taught philosophy until his retirement . In 1869 the Imperial Academy of Sciences accepted Zimmermann as a member.

At this time Zimmermann had already made a name for himself with his supporters by taking sides in the philosophical dispute between Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Theodor Vischer on the one hand and Johann Friedrich Herbart and the Herbartianism he founded on the other . The latter also included Zimmermann, who had familiarized himself with his theories and his history of aesthetics .

Together with Emil Reich , Zimmermann founded the Grillparzer Society in Vienna in 1890 ; today one of the oldest literary societies in Austria.

Recent research sees Robert Zimmermann's aesthetics as an important contribution to the development of modern image theory.

On the occasion of his 72nd birthday, Zimmermann was raised to the nobility by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Works

Leibnitz 'Monadology. German with a treatise on Leibnitz and Herbart's theories of what actually happened by Dr. Robert Zimmermann . Vienna 1847;
Leibnitz and Herbart. A comparison of their monadologies ; winning award typeface from Robert Zimmermann. Vienna 1849;
What do we expect from philosophy? A lecture given on April 26, 1852, at the beginning of the full teaching post of philosophy at the Prague University. Prague 1852.
The legal principle at Leibnitz. A contribution to the history of legal philosophy (Vienna 1852);
Philosophical propaedeutics . Vienna 1852, 3rd edition 1867; (translated several times into foreign languages);
About the tragic and the tragedy . Vienna 1856;
Aesthetics (Vienna 1858–1865, 2 vols .; the first contains history and criticism, the second the system);
Studies and reviews on philosophy and aesthetics . Vienna 1870, 2 vol .;
Samuel Clarke's life and teaching . Vienna 1870.
Anthroposophy in outline . Vienna 1882; contains his system of philosophical sciences.
Leibnitz near Spinoza . An illumination of the issue . Vienna 1890.

He also published numerous treatises in the pamphlets of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Zimmermann, Robert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1891, pp. 131–136 ( digitized version ).
Bernhard Münz .: Zimmermann, Robert von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 294-299.
Eduard Winter (Ed.): Robert Zimmermann's philosophical propaedeutics and the templates from Bernard Bolzano's science teaching . A documentation on the history of thought and education in the Danube Monarchy . Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences 1975. ISBN 3-7001-0118-X

Thomas Borgard: Immanentism and conjunctive thinking. The emergence of a modern understanding of the world from the strategic use of a psychologia prima (1830–1880) . De Gruyter, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-35063-6 .

Web links

Literature by and about Robert von Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Robert von Zimmermann in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

↑ Wiesing, Lambert: The visibility of the picture. History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics . Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2008. Chap. 1. pp. 27-54.

personal data
SURNAME	Zimmermann, Robert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Carpenter, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian aesthetician and philosophical writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 1898
Place of death	Prague

[1] Wiesing, Lambert: The visibility of the picture. History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics . Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2008. Chap. 1. pp. 27-54.