Gustav Hartenstein (18 March 1808 – 2 February 1890) was a German philosopher and author. He was one of the most gifted followers of

Johann Friedrich Herbart Johann Friedrich Herbart (; 4 May 1776 – 14 August 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest ...

Biography

He was born at

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, and educated at the Fürstenschule in

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. From 1826 he studied at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

, where his teachers were Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile, Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner,

Christian Wilhelm Niedner Christian Wilhelm Niedner (9 August 1797 – 13 August 1865) was a German church historian and theologian born in Oberwinkel, which today is part of the town of Waldenburg, Saxony. He studied theology at the University of Leipzig, where in 1826 he ...

Gottfried Hermann Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann (28 November 1772 – 31 December 1848) was a German classical scholar and philologist. He published his works under the name Gottfried Hermann or its Latin equivalent . Biography He was born in Leipzig. Enteri ...

Wilhelm Traugott Krug Wilhelm Traugott Krug (22 June 177012 January 1842) was a German philosopher and writer. He is considered to be part of the Kantian School of logic. Life Krug was born on June 22, 1770 near Wittenberg to a farming family. He studied at the Unive ...

and

Wilhelm Wachsmuth Wilhelm Gottfried Wachsmuth (28 December 1784, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany – 23 January 1866, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany) was a German historian and academic. From 1803 to 1806 he studied philology and theology at the University of Halle, an ...

. In 1833 he obtained his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...

for philosophy with the thesis ''De Archytae Tarentini fragmentis philosophicis'', and in 1836 was named a full professor at the University of Leipzig. In 1848/49 he served as

academic rector A rector (Latin for 'ruler') is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school. Outside the English-speaking world the rector is often the most senior official in a un ...

. He died in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

Works

He extended Herbart's thinking in the works entitled: * ''Die Probleme und Grundlehren der allgemeinen Metaphysik'' (1836) * ''Die Grundbegriffe der ethischen Wissenschaften'' (1844) Also, he was the author of a 12–volume edition of Herbart's works, titled ''Johann Friedrich Herbart's sämmtliche werke'' (1850–52). In 1867 he published an edition of

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aes ...

's collected works; ''Immanuel Kant's sämmtliche Werke'' (8 volumes).HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

* 1808 births 1890 deaths 19th-century German philosophers Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University Rectors of Leipzig University People from Plauen German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub