Robert von Zimmermann or Robert Zimmermann (2 November 1824,

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– 1 September 1898, Prague) was an Austrian-Czech

philosopher 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 ...

. The mathematician and philosopher,

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, entrusted his unfinished work, ''Grössenlehre'' ("Theory of Quantity", a philosophical foundation for mathematics), which had not been completed at the time of his death in 1848, to von Zimmermann who was 24 years old. Zimmermann had been a student of Bolzano's. Since Zimmermann's interests were more in the area of philosophy as he had been appointed to the chair of philosophy at the University of Prague in 1852, he didn't do much with Bolzano's papers. Most of the remaining manuscripts stayed in Zimmermann's possession until 1882 when he gave them to the

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(Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien). Robert von Zimmermann taught at the

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from 1861."Julius von Schlosser, The Vienna school of the history of art – review of a century of Austrian scholarship in German
p. 26. (''Die Wiener Schule der Kunstgeschichte'' translated into English and edited by Institutsarchivar Karl Johns from'':'' Mitteilungen des österreichischen Instituts für Geschichtsforschung Ergänzungs-Band 13, Heft 2, Innsbruck: Wagner 1934) One of his doctoral students was

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Literary works

* ''Philosophische Propädeutik'', 1852 * ''Geschichte der Ästhetik als philosophische Wissenschaft'', 1858 * ''Allgemeine Ästhetik als Formwissenschaft'' (General Aesthetics as a Science of Form), 1865 * ''Studien und Kritiken zur Philosophie und Ästhetik'', 2 vols., 1870 * '' Anthroposophie'', 1882

References

* Payzant, Geoffrey
"Eduard Hanslick and Robert Zimmermann: A Biographical Sketch"
University of Toronto, 28 January 2001. (an earlier version delivered October 14, 1995 at a symposium on music and philosophy held at the University of Toronto)

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