CHRISTIAN

See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST

See also:

• CHRISTIAN AUGUST BRANDIS (1790–1867)

BRANDIS (1790–1867)  , German philologist and historian of philosophy, was born at Hildesheim and educated at Kiel University . In 1812 he graduated at Copenhagen, with a thesis Commentationes Eleaticae (a collection of fragments from Xenophanes, Parmenides and Melissus) . For a time he studied at Gottingen, and in 1815 presented as his inaugural dissertation at Berlin his essay Von dem Begriff der Geschichte der Philosophie . In 1816 he refused an extraordinary professorship at Heidelberg in order to accompany B . G . Niebuhr to Italy as secretary to the Prussian embassy . Subsequently he assisted I . Bekker in the preparation of his edition of Aristotle . In 1821 he became professor of philosophy in the newly founded university of Bonn, and in 1823 published his Aristotelius at Theophrasti Metaphysica . With Boeckh and Niebuhr he edited the Rheinisches Museum, to which he contributed important articles on Socrates (1827, 1829) . In 1836–1839 he was tutor to the young king Otho of Greece . His great work, the Handbuch der Geschichte der griechisch-rom .

Philos . (1835–1866; republished in a smaller and more systematic

form, Gesch. d . Entwickelungen d. griech . Pizilos., 1862–1866), is characterized by sound criticism . Brandis died on the 21st of July 1867 . See Trendelenburg, Zur Erinnerung an C . A . B . (Berlin, 1868) .