Moriz Carrière

Moriz Carrière (5 March 1817, Griedel near Darmstadt, Germany – 19 January 1895, Munich) was a German philosopher and historian.

Carrière was born in Griedel near Darmstadt, Germany. After studying at the University of Giessen, the University of Göttingen, and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, he spent a few years in Italy studying the fine arts, and established himself in 1842 at Giessen as a teacher of philosophy. His essay on Cromwell (in Lebensskizzen, 1890) develops his liberal ideas and may be considered his political confession of faith. He has prepared annotated editions of Goethe's Faust and Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. During the Franco-Prussian War, he delivered lectures on Die sittliche Weltordnung in den Zeichen und Aufgaben unserer Zeit (Munich, 1870), and on Deutsche Geisteshelden im Elsass (1871). His complete works were published at Leipzig, 14 vols., in 1886–1894.