Karl von Prantl (aka Carl von Prantl) (28 January 1820 – 14 September 1888) (after 1872: Karl, Ritter von Prantl) was a

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Biography

He was born at Landsberg on the Lech. In 1843, he became doctor of philosophy at Munich Observatory, where he was made professor in 1859. He was also a member of the Academies of

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. Strongly in agreement with the

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tradition, he defended and amplified it in ''Die gegenwärtige Aufgabe der Philosophie'' (1852) and ''Verstehen und Beurteilen'' (1877). In these works, he emphasized the identity of the subjective and the objective for consciousness, and the fact that the perception of this unity is peculiar to man. He is more important, however, as a commentator and scholar, and made valuable contributions to the study of

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. He published ''Aristoteles über die Farben'' (1849), ''Aristoteles acht Bücher der Physik'' (1857), and numerous minor articles on smaller points, such as the authenticity of the thirty-eight books of the ''Problems''. The work by which he is best known is ''Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande'' (4 volumes) (Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1855–1870) (''History of Logic in the West'').

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, in the preface to the first edition of his ''Logic'', makes special mention of the assistance he obtained from this work. Prantl died in

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References

Bibliography

* Carl Prantl - ''Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande'' (4 volumes) (Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1997) (anastatic reprint of the original edition) * Carl Prantl - ''Die Philosophie in den Sprichwörtern''. München : Christian Kaiser, 1858.

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entry in the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'', volume 55, pp. 854–872, by Clemens Baeumker. {{DEFAULTSORT:Prantl, Carl von 1820 births 1888 deaths 19th-century German philosophers German logicians German philologists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Bavarian nobility 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers