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Johann Friedrich Herbart

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Johann Friedrich Herbart , 1776-1841, German philosopher and educator. Influenced by Leibniz, Kant, and Fichte, Herbart made many important contributions to psychology. In 1805 he lectured at Göttingen and from 1809 to 1833 held the chair of philosophy at Königsberg. He then returned to Göttingen as professor of philosophy. Psychologie als Wissenschaft (1824-25) was his major psychological work and Allgemeine Metaphysik (1828-29) his most important philosophical study. Herbart held that the concepts of change and becoming harbored a contradiction that destroyed the reality... Read more
Johann Friedrich Herbart
Johann Friedrich Herbart Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841...education. Johann Friedrich Herbart was born on...studied under Johann Gottlieb Fichte and met Friedrich von Schiller. Upon graduation Herbart went to Interlaken... Read more
Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch
, 1802-96, German philosopher and mathematician. He was a teacher at Leipzig and a follower and adherent of Johann Friedrich Herbart. Drobisch's works include Neue Darstellung der Logik [new exposition of logic] (1836) and Empirische Psychologie (1842). Read more

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