Johann Heinrich Abicht
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Johann Heinrich Abicht was a German
philosopher.
Johann's grandfather was teacher and organist in Wilmersdorf, Gehren, and his father a teacher in Volkstedt. Johann Abicht himself finished the college in Rudolstadt and visited the university of Erlangen
in 1781. In 1784 he became controller at the house of chief equerry von Schall in Öhringen
. Abicht made his magister in 1786 and his doctor in philosophy 1790. In the same year, he was appointed adjunct and then extraordinary professor in the philosophical faculty. He became regular professor in 1796. On 4 August 1804 he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the newly reorganised university of Wilna.
His philosophy is clearly influenced by Kant
, later by Karl Leonhard Reinhold
.
Germany
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philosopher.
Johann's grandfather was teacher and organist in Wilmersdorf, Gehren, and his father a teacher in Volkstedt. Johann Abicht himself finished the college in Rudolstadt and visited the university of Erlangen
Erlangen
Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants....
in 1781. In 1784 he became controller at the house of chief equerry von Schall in Öhringen
Öhringen
Öhringen is the largest city in Hohenlohe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near Heilbronn. Öhringen is on the railways to Schwäbisch Hall and Crailsheim.With a population of 22,745 , the city is diverse...
. Abicht made his magister in 1786 and his doctor in philosophy 1790. In the same year, he was appointed adjunct and then extraordinary professor in the philosophical faculty. He became regular professor in 1796. On 4 August 1804 he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the newly reorganised university of Wilna.
His philosophy is clearly influenced by Kant
KANT
KANT is a computer algebra system for mathematicians interested in algebraic number theory, performing sophisticated computations in algebraic number fields, in global function fields, and in local fields. KASH is the associated command line interface...
, later by Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Karl Leonhard Reinhold was an Austrian philosopher. He was the father of Ernst Reinhold, also a philosopher.-Life:...
.
Publications
- De philosophiae Kantianae ad theologiam habitu, 1788
- Versuch einer Metaphysik des Vergnügens nach Kantischen Grundsätzen zur Grundlegung einer systematischen Thelematologie und Moral 1789
- Philosophie der Erkenntnisse, 1791
- Hermias, oder Auflösung der die gültige Elementarphilosophie betreffenden Aenesidemischen Zweifel, 1794
- Neues philosophisches Magazin zur Erläuterung und Anwendung des Kantischen Systems, 1789-1790, collaboration with Friedrich Gottlieb Born.
- Philosophisches Journal, 4 volumes, 1794-1795, collaboration
Sources
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie - online version at WikisourceWikisourceWikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its aims are to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has...