Friedrich Harms (24 October 1819, in

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– 5 April 1880, in

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) was a German realist

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, much influenced by Fichte. He studied philosophy at the University of Kiel as a pupil of

Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus (3 July 1796, in Pfaffroda – 22 September 1862, in Dresden) was a German philosopher best known for his exegetical work on philosophy, such as his characterisation of Hegel's dialectic as a triad of " thesis–antith ...

. In 1842 he obtained his

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for philosophy at Kiel, where he later became an associate professor (1848; a full professor in 1858). In 1867 he relocated to the

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as a professor of philosophy.Harms, Joachim Friedrich Simon
In:

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(NDB). Band 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, , S. 683 f.

Works

* ''Prolegomena zur Philosophie'' (1852) – Prolegomena to philosophy. * ''Abhandlungen zur systematischen Philosophie'' (1868) – Essays on systematic philosophy. * ''Die Philosophie seit Kant'' (1876) – Philosophy since

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. * ''Ueber die Lehre von Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi'' (1876) – On the teachings of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. * ''Geschichte der Logik'' (1881) – History of logic. * ''Logik'' (1886) edited by Heinrich Wiese. * ''Begriff, Formen und Grundlegung der Rechtsphilosophie'' (1889) edited by Heinrich Wiese. * ''Naturphilosophie'' (1895) edited by Heinrich Wiese. * ''Psychologie'' (1897) edited by Heinrich Wiese.

References

19th-century German philosophers 1819 births 1880 deaths University of Kiel alumni Academic staff of the University of Kiel Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub