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CHRISTIAN AUGUST BRANDIS (1790–1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 428 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTIAN See also:AUGUST See also:BRANDIS (1790–1867)  , See also:German philologist and historian of See also:philosophy, was See also:born at See also:Hildesheim and educated at See also:Kiel University . In 1812 he graduated at See also:Copenhagen, with a thesis Commentationes Eleaticae (a collection of fragments from See also:Xenophanes, Parmenides and Melissus) . For a See also:time he studied at See also:Gottingen, and in 1815 presented as his inaugural dissertation at See also:Berlin his See also:essay Von dem Begriff der Geschichte der Philosophie . In 1816 he refused an extraordinary professorship at See also:Heidelberg in See also:order to accompany B . G . See also:Niebuhr to See also:Italy as secretary to the Prussian See also:embassy . Subsequently he assisted I . See also:Bekker in the preparation of his edition of See also:Aristotle . In 1821 he became See also:professor of philosophy in the newly founded university of See also: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 See also:Socrates (1827, 1829) . In 1836–1839 he was See also:tutor to the See also:young See also:king See also:Otho of See also:Greece . His See also:great See also:work, the Handbuch der Geschichte der griechisch-rom .

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

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

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