THEODOR WAITZ (1821-1864)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 247
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
THEODOR See also:WAITZ (1821-1864)
, See also:German psychologist and anthropologist, was See also:born at See also:Gotha on the 17th of See also:March 1821
.
Educated at See also:Leipzig and See also:Jena, he made See also:philosophy, See also:philology and See also:mathematics his See also:chief studies, and in 1848 he was appointed See also:professor of philosophy in the university of See also:Marburg
.
He was a severe critic of the philosophy of See also:Fichte, See also:Schelling and See also:Hegel, and considered See also:psychology to be the basis of all philosophy
.
His researches brought him into See also:touch with See also:anthropology, and he will be best remembered by his monumental See also:work in six
volumes, See also:Die Anthropologie der Naturvolker
.
He died on the 21st of May 1864 at Marburg
.
In addition to his Anthropologie, the first four volumes of which appeared at Leipzig, 1859–1864, the last two posthumously, he published Grundlegung der Psychologie (1846); Lehrbuch der Psychologie als Naturwissenschaft (1849); Atlgemeine Padagogik (1852); and a See also:critical edition of the See also:Organon of See also:Aristotle (1844)
.
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