Leopold von Henning
Leopold August Wilhelm Dorotheus von Henning (originally von Henning auf Schönhoff; 4 October 1791 – 5 October 1866) was a
Hegelian Right
.
Biography
Leopold von Henning was born in
University of Berlin
.
In 1823, he married Emilie Krutisch (180–1853). The couple had three sons and seven daughters, including Laura Henning (1826–1911), who married the lawyer Berthold Delbrück (1817–1868) and was the mother of historian Hans Delbrück (1848–1929) and chemist Max Delbrück (1850–1919).[citation needed]
In 1825, von Henning was appointed associate professor of philosophy at the
University of Berlin
; in 1835 he was awarded a full professorship. From 1827 he was editor of the Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Kritik (Annals for scientific criticism), which for 20 years was the most influential Hegelian magazine.
In a document from 1839, he was one of the owners of the Henningshofs in Wandersleben, being named as the ancestral seat of the Henning family.
Henning died in Berlin in 1866, aged 75.
References
- ^ D'Hondt, Jacques (1968). Hegel en son Temps (BERLIN, 1818-1831). pp. 90–97.
- ^ Cowley, Stephen (2016). "Hegel in Berlin - Jacques D'Hondt". Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- Carl von Prantl (1880), "Henning, Leopold Dorotheus (genannt von Schönhoff)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 11, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 777–778
- Hans-Martin Saß (1969), "Henning, August Wilhelm Dorotheus von", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 8, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 546–547; (full text online)
- Lore Schmidt-Delbrück: Leopold von Henning. 1791 - 1866. Ein Lebensbericht zusammengestellt aus alten Briefen und Dokumenten, Selbstverlag mit Schreibmaschine, hektografiert, Berlin 1961
External links
- Literature by and about Leopold von Henning in the German National Library catalogue