THEODOR

WAITZ (1821-1864)  , German psychologist and anthropologist, was born at Gotha on the 17th of March 1821 . Educated at Leipzig and Jena, he made philosophy, philology and mathematics his chief studies, and in 1848 he was appointed professor of philosophy in the university of Marburg . He was a severe critic of the philosophy of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, and considered psychology to be the basis of all philosophy . His researches brought him into touch with anthropology, and he will be best remembered by his monumental work in six volumes, 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 critical edition of the Organon of Aristotle (1844) .