ERNST KUNO BERTHOLD

See also:

• FISCHER
• FISCHER, EMIL (1852– )
• ERNST KUNO BERTHOLD FISCHER (1824–1907)

FISCHER (1824–1907)  , German philosopher, was born at Sandewalde in Silesia, on the 23rd of July 1824 . After studying philosophy at Leipzig and Halle, he became a privat-docent at Heidelberg in 185o . The Baden government in 1853 laid an embargo on his teaching owing to ' For a brief review of the pharmacology of purin derivatives see F . Francis and J . M . Fortescue-Brinkdale, The Chemical Basis of Pharmacology (1908) . his Liberal ideas, but the effect of this was to rouse considerable sympathy for his views, and in 1856 he obtained a professorship at Jena, where he soon acquired great influence by the dignity of his personal character . In 1872, on Zeller's removal to Berlin, Fischer succeeded him as professor of philosophy and the history of modern German literature at Heidelberg, where he died on the 4th of July 1907 . His part in philosophy was that of historian and commentator, for which he was especially qualified by his remarkable clearness of exposition; his point of view is in the main Hegelian . His Geschichte der neuern Philosophie (1852–1893, new ed . 1897) is perhaps the most accredited modern book of its kind, and he made valuable contributions to the study of Kant, Bacon, Shakespeare, Goethe, Spinoza, Lessing, Schiller and Schopenhauer . Some of his numerous works have been translated into English: Francis Bacon of Verulam, by J .

Oxenford (1857); The Life and Character of Benedict Spinoza, by Frida Schmidt (1882); A Commentary on Kant's Kritik of Pure Reason, by J . P . Mahaffy (1866); Descartes and his School, by J . P . Gordy (1887); A Critique of Kant, by W . S . Hough (1888); see also H . Falkenheim, Kuno Fischer and die litterar-historische.Methode (1892); and bibliography in J . M . Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (1905) .