Wilhelm Friedrich August Mackensen
Wilhelm Friedrich August Mackensen (often also Wilhelm Mackensen ; born April 4, 1768 in Wolfenbüttel , † August 14, 1798 in Kiel ) was a German philosopher .
Life
He studied from 1786 at the University of Helmstedt and subsequently from 1788 at the University of Göttingen , where he obtained a master's degree in philosophy and a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . He went to the University of Kiel , where he received his habilitation in 1795 . He then taught as a private lecturer in philosophy and became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty in 1796 or 1797. He undertook some poetic attempts and then turned to the consideration of language and philosophical subjects. Just two years later, he fell victim to an epidemic of dysentery . Contemporaries valued Mackensen as a Lessing -like spirit.
Works (selection)
- Last word about Göttingen and its teachers: A little word is raisonned with under , Leipzig 1791.
- Contributions to the Critique of Language , Wolfenbüttel 1794.
- Investigations into the national character in relation to the question: Why is there no German national theater? , 1794.
- Kant's explanation of laughter explained and Mr. Platner's theory of the ridiculous examined , 1794.
- On the Origin of Language , 1797.
- Basic features of a theory of the capacity for abstraction , Renger, Halle 1799.
literature
- Carsten Erich Carstens : Mackensen, Wilhelm Friedrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 16 f.
- Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1797, vol. 5, p. 6.
- Rosemarie Henning: Mackensen, Wilhelm Friedrich August, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 399 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosemarie Henning: Mackensen, Wilhelm Friedrich August, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 399 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mackensen, Wilhelm Friedrich August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mackensen, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfenbüttel |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1798 |
| Place of death | Kiel |