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Friedrich Harms

1819 – 1880

German philosopher

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Lived 1819 – 1880 (aged 60). Friedrich Harms was a German philosopher and university teacher.

Friedrich Harms (; 1819–1880) was a German realist philosopher, much influenced by Fichte.

Biography Harms was born on 24 October 1819 in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein. He studied philosophy at the University of Kiel as a pupil of Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus. In 1842 he obtained his habilitation for philosophy at Kiel, where he later became an associate professor (1848; a full professor in 1858). In 1867 he relocated to the University of Berlin as a professor of philosophy.

He died on 5 April 1880, in Berlin.

Works Prolegomena zur Philosophie (1852) – Prolegomena to philosophy. Abhandlungen zur systematischen Philosophie (1868) – Essays on systematic philosophy. Die Philosophie seit Kant (1876) – Philosophy since Immanuel Kant. Ueber die Lehre von Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1876) – On the teachings of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. Geschichte der Logik (1881) – History of logic. Logik (1886) edited by Heinrich Wiese. Begriff, Formen und Grundlegung der Rechtsphilosophie (1889) edited by Heinrich Wiese. Naturphilosophie (1895) edited by Heinrich Wiese. Psychologie (1897) edited by Heinrich Wiese.

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Kiel University
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Kiel University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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German philosopher (1819–1880)

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Friedrich Harms was born on 24 October 1819 in Kiel.

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Friedrich Harms died on 5 April 1880 in Berlin.

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Friedrich Harms was a philosopher and university teacher.

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Friedrich Harms was German.

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· Wikipedia: Friedrich Harms

· Wikidata: Q91156

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