Rudolf Seydel (May 27, 1835 – December 8, 1892) was a German

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 ...

and

theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...

born in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

. In 1860 he received his habilitation at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), 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 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

, where in 1867 he became an associate professor of philosophy. He was a disciple of Christian Hermann Weisse (1801–1866), and is remembered for his studies involving parallels between

Buddhism Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...

and

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, which states that Jesus in Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God (Christianity), Son of God and Resurrection of Jesus, rose from the dead after his Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixion, whose ...

. Seydel died in

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

on December 8, 1892.

Selected writings

* ''Schopenhauers philosophisches System'' (

Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer ( ; ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work '' The World as Will and Representation'' (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manife ...

's philosophical system), 1857. * ''Logik oder Wissenschaft vom Wissen'' (Logic or science of wisdom), 1866. * ''Die Religion der Religionen'' (The religion of religions), 1872. * ''Ethik oder Wissenschaft vom Seinsollenden'' (Ethic or science of the Seinsollenden), 1874. * ''Das Evangelium von Jesu in seinem Verhältnis zur Buddhasage und Buddhlehre'' (The Gospel of Jesus in relation to the Buddha legend and teachings), 1882. * ''Die Buddhalegende und das Leben Jesu nach den Evangelien'' (The Buddha legend and the life of Jesus after the

Gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the second century AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported. In this sen ...

), 1884. * ''Buddha und Christus'' (Buddha and Christ), 1884. * ''Religion und Wissenschaft. Gesammelte Reden und Abhandlungen'' (Religion and science, Collection of Writings and Papers), 1887. * ''Religionsphilosophie im Umriß'' (Philosophy of religion in outline); (edited by Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel 1893).

References

translated biography @

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the . Joseph Meyer (publisher), Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing hous ...

A dictionary of Christ and the Gospels by James Hastings
19th-century German philosophers Clergy from Dresden Academic staff of Leipzig University 1835 births 1892 deaths German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub