FRIEDRICH

See also:

• FRIEDRICH UEBERWEG (1826-1871)

UEBERWEG (1826-1871)  , German historian of philosophy, was born on the 22nd of January 1826 at Leichlingen, in Rhenish Prussia, where his father was Lutheran pastor . Educated at Gottingen and Berlin, he qualified him-self at Bonn as Privatdozent in philosophy (1852) . In 1862 he was called to Konigsberg as extraordinary professor, and in 1867 he was advanced to the ordinary grade . He married in 1863, and died on the 9th of June 1871 . His compendious History of Philosophy is remarkable for fullness of information, conciseness, accuracy and impartiality . At first he followed Beneke's empiricism, and strongly opposed the subjectivistic tendency of the Kantian system, maintaining in particular the objectivity of space and time, which involved him in a somewhat violent controversy . His own mode of thought he preferred later to describe as an ideal realism, which refused to reduce reality to thought, but asserted a parallelism between the forms of existence and the forms of knowledge . Beneke and Schleiermacher exercised most influence upon the development of his thought . WORKs.—System der Logik (1857; 5th ed., 1882; Eng. trans. of 3rd ed. by T . M . Lindsay, 1871); Grundriss der Gesch. der Phil . (1863-1866, 8th ed., M .

Heinze, 1894–1898; Eng. trans., G . S .

Morris, 1872; 4th ed., 1885); an essay (1861) on the authenticity and order of Plato's writings, crowned by the Imperial Academy of Vienna; Schiller als . Hist. and Phil . (published by Brasch from his papers, Leipzig, 1884) . See F . A . Lange, Friedrich Ueberweg (Berlin, 1871) ; M . Brasch, Die Welt- and Lebensanschauung Friedrich Ueberwegs (Leipzig, 1889) .