Friedrich Ueberweg

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Friedrich Ueberweg
(Plaque on Friedrich-Ueberweg-Platz, at the corner of Marktstraße and Mittelstraße in Leichlingen)

Friedrich Ueberweg (German: [ˈyːbɐˌveːk]; 22 January 1826 – 9 June 1871), was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Biography

Friedrich Ueberweg was born in Leichlingen, Rhineland. His parents were Johann Gottlob Friedrich Ueberweg (19 August 1797 - 9 February 1826), who was pastor of a Lutheran church in Leichlingen, and Helene Boeddinghaus (24 October 1798 - 8 August 1868). Helene was a daughter of Karl Theodor Boeddinghaus (21 February 1765 - 27 December 1842), who was a Lutheran pastor in the neighboring town of Ronsdorf.

Educated at the

Pillau, Province of Prussia. Ueberweg died in Königsberg in 1871.[1]

Philosophy

At first Ueberweg followed the

space and time, which involved him in a somewhat violent controversy. His own mode of thought he preferred later to describe as an ideal realism, which refused to reduce reality to thought, but asserted a parallelism between the forms of existence and the forms of knowledge. Beneke and Friedrich Schleiermacher exercised most influence upon the development of his thought.[1]

Selected works

Ueberweg's compendious Sketch of the History of Philosophy (3 vols., 1863–1866) is regarded by many academics and scholars as remarkable for its fullness of information, conciseness, accuracy and impartiality.

References

  1. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 556.

Sources

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ueberweg, Friedrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 556. Endnotes:
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