Karl von Prantl (aka Carl von Prantl) (28 January 1820 – 14 September 1888) (after 1872: Karl, Ritter von Prantl) was a
German
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philosopher
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and
philologist.
Biography
He was born at
Landsberg on the Lech. In 1843 he became doctor of philosophy at Munich Observatory, where he was made professor in 1859. He was also a member of the Academies of
Berlin and
Munich. Strongly in agreement with the
Hegelian tradition, he defended and amplified it in ''Die gegenwärtige Aufgabe der Philosophie'' (1852) and ''Verstehen und Beurteilen'' (1877).
In these works, he emphasized the identity of the subjective and the objective for consciousness, and the fact that the perception of this unity is peculiar to man. He is more important, however, as a commentator and scholar, and made valuable contributions to the study of
Aristotle. He published ''Aristoteles über die Farben'' (1849), ''Aristoteles acht Bücher der Physik'' (1857), and numerous minor articles on smaller points, such as the authenticity of the thirty-eight books of the ''Problems''.
The work by which he is best known is ''Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande'' (4 vols.) (Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1855–1870) (''History of Logic in the West'').
Christoph von Sigwart
Christoph von Sigwart (28 March 1830 – 4 August 1904) was a German philosopher and logician. He was the son of philosopher Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart (31 August 1789 – 16 November 1844).
Life
After a course of philosophy ...
, in the preface to the first edition of his ''Logic'', makes special mention of the assistance he obtained from this work.
Prantl died in
Oberstdorf.
Bibliography
* Carl Prantl - ''Geschichte der Logik im Abendlande'' (4 vols.) (Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1997) (anastatic reprint of the original edition)
* Carl Prantl - ''Die Philosophie in den Sprichwörtern''. München : Christian Kaiser, 1858.
External links
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Carl von Prantlentry in the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'', vol. 55, pp. 854–872, by Clemens Baeumker.
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1820 births
1888 deaths
German philosophers
19th-century philosophers
19th-century German people
German logicians
German philologists
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Bavarian nobility
19th-century German writers
19th-century German male writers