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Wilhelm Traugott Krug (born June 22, 1770 in Radis ; † January 12, 1842 in Leipzig ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Krug was born on the night of June 21st to June 22nd, 1770. His father Johann Christian Krug was leaseholder of the manor in Radis at the time, later administrator of the Strohwalde chamber property and rent master in Graefenhainichen . Krug's mother was Christiane Krug, née Steude. Krug went to the village school first, but the teaching was poor. The parents therefore had their children tutored by private tutors. From 1782 he attended the Pforta State School , which he graduated in 1788 as the third best of his year. After studying philosophy and theology in 1788 at the Leucorea in Wittenberg, in 1792 at the University of Jena and in 1794 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , Krug qualified as an adjunct in 1794 in Wittenberg . He gave lectures on philosophy and encyclopedia. With another teaching assignment, he went to the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt as associate professor in 1801 . There he met Wilhelmine von Zenge and married her on January 8, 1804 in the St. Marienkirche Frankfurt (Oder) . Wilhelmine had previously been engaged to Heinrich von Kleist since 1800 . The following year their son August Otto Krug was born.

From 1805, Traugott Krug was Immanuel Kant's successor at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He was the initiator and founding member of the Tugendbund founded in 1807 . From 1809 he worked in Leipzig , where among other things he was editorially responsible for the Leipzig literary newspaper. As a cavalry master with the Saxon mounted hunters, he fought in the Wars of Liberation . In 1830 he administered the rectorate of the university and - retired at his request in 1834 - as a philosophical, journalistic and rationalistic-theological writer, in 1833 also as a liberal deputy until his death.

As a representative of the Leipzig University, he was a member of the first chamber of the first constitutional state parliament of Saxony in 1833/34 . On behalf of the Israelite Community of Dresden, he presented the High First Chamber of the Landtag with a petition for the emancipation of the Jews in the Kingdom of Saxony, which opponents of emancipation fought fiercely. He was a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms . Under the rectorate of Krug in 1830, the traditional division of the university into the nationes was abolished and the university constitution was adapted to the new state constitution. The later composers Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner were among his students .

philosophy

Krug's grave in Leipzig's old Johannis cemetery

The basic idea of ​​his philosophical system, which he describes in his "Fundamentalphilosophie" ( Züllichau 1803; 3rd edition, Leipzig 1827) as the transcendental synthesis of being and knowledge ("Transcendental Synthetism"), is that neither realism nor idealism is reason satisfy, hence a third system, which proceeds from the original connection of being and knowledge in consciousness as a transcendental synthesis that is the only permissible.

Honors

Incomplete list

Fonts

  • Basic lines for a general German republic drawn by a martyr of truth ; Altona and Vienna, 1797
  • Political science considered in the restoration process of Messrs. Von Haller, Adam Müller and their colleagues . Leipzig, 1817. (completely on Google Books )
  • Draft for German and representation of English legislation on freedom of the press . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1818 ( digitized version )
  • Greece's rebirth. A Resurrection Festival program ; 2nd edition, Leipzig 1821
  • Fundamental philosophy ; Züllichau 1803, 3rd edition, Leipzig 1827
  • System of theoretical philosophy ; Königsberg 1806-10, 3 volumes; 1st volume, 3rd edition 1825; 2nd volume, 3rd edition 1830; 3rd volume, 2nd edition 1823
  • History of ancient philosophy ; Leipzig 1815, 2nd edition 1826
  • System of practical philosophy ; Königsberg 1817–19, 3 volumes; 2nd edition 1829-38
  • Handbook of Philosophy and Philosophical Literature ; Leipzig 1820–21, 2 volumes; 3rd edition 1828
  • Historical representation of the liberalism of old and new times ; Leipzig 1823
  • Basis for a new theory of feelings and the so-called feeling faculty ; Koenigsberg 1824
  • Dicaopolitics, or the most recent restoration of the state by means of legal law ; Leipzig 1824
  • Addendum to Scripture: What consequences can and will the recent conversion of a Protestant prince to the Catholic Church have? ; second improved edition, enlarged with an addition; Kollmann i. Komm., Leipzig 1826 ( digitized version )
  • General concise dictionary of the philosophical sciences together with their literature and history ; Leipzig 1827–28, 4 volumes; 5th Volumes 1829-34; 2nd, improved and enlarged edition 1832–1838. - Reprint of the 2nd edition: Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1970, ISBN 978-3-7728-0209-6
  • Universal philosophical lectures for educated people of both sexes ; Neustadt an der Orla 1831
  • Schelling and Hegel. Or the newest philosophy in a war of annihilation with itself ; Leipzig 1835 (completely on Google Books )
  • Collected Writings ; Braunschweig and Leipzig 1830–1841, 12 volumes

literature

  • Wilhelm Traugott Krug, Franz Volkmar Reinhard : My journey through life: Described by Urceus in six stations for the instruction of the youth and for the entertainment of the elderly . Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1825 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Walther Killy (ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Gütersloh, Munich: Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verl., 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
  • Carl von Prantl :  Krug, Wilhelm Traugott . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 220-222.
  • Friedbert Holz:  Krug, Wilhelm Traugott. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 114 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Uwe Backes : The philosopher Wilhelm Traugott Krug: His position in pre-March liberalism and his work for the emancipation of Jews in Saxony , in: Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig (Leipzig contributions to Jewish history and culture, Vol. IV), ed. Stephan Wendehorst, Leipzig 2006, pp. 483–504.
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : The philosopher Wilhelm Traugott Krug - a prominent son of the Dübener Heide . In: Jahrbuch der Dübener Heide 2016, pp. 38–42.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Richter: The Order of Constantists in the course of the zeitgeist . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 116–165, here p. 157.
  2. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Saxon State Parliament 2001, p. 45
  3. ↑ Petition of the merchants and traders in the towns of Leisnig, Oschatz, Grimma, Döbeln, Mitweida and Kolditz against the emancipation of the Jews in the Kingdom of Saxony, Leisnig 1833 SLUB
  4. ↑ Mario Todte: Robert Schumann and the University of Leipzig 1828/29 , in: The "academic" Schumann and the Jena doctorate from 1840, (series of publications by the Leipzig University Archives, vol. 14), ed. by Joachim Bauer and Jens Blecher, Leipzig 2010, pp. 9–22.
personal data
SURNAME Krug, Wilhelm Traugott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Radis near Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1842
Place of death Leipzig