HARALD

See also:

• HARALD HOFFDING (1843– )

HOFFDING (1843– )  , Danish philosopher, was born and educated in Copenhagen . He became a school-master, and ultimately in 1883 professor in the university of Copenhagen . He was much influenced by Soren Kierkegaard in the early development of his thought, but later became a positivist, retaining, however, and combining with it the spirit and method of practical psychology and the critical school . His best-known work is perhaps his Den nyere Filosofis Historie (1894), translated into English from the German edition (1895) by B . E . Meyer as History of Modern Philosophy (2 vols., 1900), a work intended by him to supplement and correct that of Hans Brochner, to whom it is dedicated . His Psychology, the Problems of Philosophy (1903) and Philosophy of Religion (1906) also have appeared in English . Among Hoffding's other writings, practically all of which have been translated into German, are: Den engelske Filosofi i vor Tid (1874); Etik (1876; ed . 1879); Psychologi i Omrids pale Grundlag of Esfaring (ed . 1892) ; Psykologiske Undersogelser (1889) ; Charles Darwin (1889); Kontinuiteten i Kants fzlosofiske Udviklingsgang (1893); Det psykologiske Grundlag for logiske Domme (1899); Rousseau and seine Philosophie (1901) ; Mindre Arbejder (1899) .