Gustav Glogau (6 June 1844, Laukischken (Kreis Labiau,

Province of Prussia The Province of Prussia (; ; ; ) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1824 to 1878. The province was established in 1824 from the provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia, and was dissolved in 1878 when the merger was reversed. König ...

) - 22 March 1895,

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(

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)) was a German

philosopher of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known texts concerning ph ...

and an academic. He worked for the Technical College (1881-1883) in

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as a private tutor and, later, ''ordinarius,'' teaching

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

subjects. He taught as a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

at the

Halle University Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

(1883-),

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(1884-). Glogau was a student of the German

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

Chajim Heymann Steinthal. The name is sometime misspelled as ''Gustav Grogau''.

Literary works

* ''Abriss der philosophischen Grundwissenschaften'', 2 vols., 1880-1888

References

1844 births 1895 deaths People from Polessky District People from the Province of Prussia German philosophers of religion German male writers {{reli-philo-bio-stub