HEINRICH See also:

• HEINRICH RITTER (1791-1869)
• RITTER, KARL (1779–1859)

RITTER (1791-1869)  , -See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philosopher, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ZERBST

Zerbst on the 21st of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1791, and died at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen on the 3rd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1869 . He studied See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology at Gottingen and See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin until 1815 . In 1824 he became extraordinary See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of philosophy at Berlin, whence he was transferred to See also:

• KIEL

Kiel, where he occupied the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of philosophy from 1833 to 1837 . He then accepted a simii~r~ position at the university of Gottingen, where he remaine1 till his See also:

• DEATH

death . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORK

work was a See also:

• HISTORY

history of philosophy (Geschichte der Philosophic) published in twelve volumes at See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg from 1829 to 1853 . This See also:

• BOOK

book is the product of a wide and thorough knowledge of the subject aided by an impartial See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty, and its value is demonstrated by the fact that it has been translated into almost all the See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . He wrote also accounts of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools of philosophy, the See also:

• IONIANS

Ionians, the Pythagoreans and the Megarians . Beside these important See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• WORKS

works, he published a large number of See also:

• TREATISES

treatises of which the following may be mentioned: Versuch zur Verstdndigung giber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die neueste deutsche Philosophic zeit See also:

• KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804)

Kant (1853); Die christliche Philosophie b'is auf die neuesten Zeiten (2 vols., 1858–59), a work which supplemented the Geschichte; Abriss der philosophischen Logik (1824); Ueber das Verhaltnis der Philosophie zum Leben (1835); Historic philosophiae Graeco-Romanae (in collaboration with See also:

• PRELLER, FRIEDRICH (1804–1878)
• PRELLER, LUDWIG (1809–1861)

Preller, 1838; 7th ed., 1888); Kleine philosophische Schriften (1839–40) ; See also:

• SYSTEM

System der Logik and Metaphysik (1856) ; Encyklopadie der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1862–64); Ernest See also:

• RENAN, ERNEST (1823-1892)

Renan, uber die Naturwissenschaften and die Geschichte (1865); Ueber das Bose and See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Folgen (1869) . Of these latter, the one best known in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England is the History of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Philosophy, which, by See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason of the excellence of its arrangement and its judicious quotations and 'notes, is almost indispensable to the student of ancient philosophy .