Gottfried Schütz (1747–1832), professor at Dederstedt and Jena, and editor, together with Hufeland, of the Jena "Allgemeine Literaturzeitung," the chief literary organ of Kantism in Germany; Jacob Sigismund Beck (to be spoken of later); and the poet Schiller (also to be noticed hereafter). (2) Semi-Kantian were: Johann Heinrich Abicht (1762-1816), professor at Erlangen and Wilna; August Wilhelm Rehberg (1757-1836); Christian Jacob Kraus (1753-1807), professor at Königsberg; Wilhelm Traugott Krug (1770-1842), Kant's successor at Königsberg, and professor also at Leipzic,—a man of encyclopædic learning rather than depth of thought, who exerted a very considerable influence for the spread of interest in philosophical studies; Friedrich Bouterwek (1766-1828), professor at Göttingen; Georg Hermes (1781-1848), professor (of theology) at Bonn; Bernhard Bolzano (1781-1848), professor in Prague; Jacob Friedrich Fries (to be noticed hereafter). (3) Anti-Kantian were: Christian Garve (1742– 1798), a littérateur; Johann Heinrich Feder (1740-1821), professor at Göttingen and joint author, with Garve, of the most important of the early criticisms of Criticism; Cristoph Meiners (1747-1810), professor at Göttingen, and editor, with Feder, of a journal (called the "Philosophische Bibliothek ") established to oppose Kantism; Johann August Eberhard (1739-1809), professor at Halle, and editor of a "Philosophisches Magazin" (1787-1792), conducted for the purpose of combating Criticism; Johann Christoph Schwab (1743-1821), professor in a school at Stuttgart; Ernst Platner (1744-1818), professor in the University of Leipzic; and Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Salomon Maimon, Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, all of whom will be spoken of hereafter. END OF VOL. I. REESE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY |