Johann Christoph Muhrbeck (7 January 1733 – 15 January 1805) was a

Swedish Pomerania Swedish Pomerania ( sv, Svenska Pommern; german: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held ...

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

Early life and education

Born in

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

, the son of the theologian Lorenz Murbeck, superintendent in

Karlskrona Karlskrona (, , ) is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Swed ...

, Muhrbeck was first taught by a tutor and then attended school in Karlskrona. He later studied at the universities of

and

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

. After his return to Sweden he became a teacher at the

cadet A cadet is an officer trainee or candidate. The term is frequently used to refer to those training to become an officer in the military, often a person who is a junior trainee. Its meaning may vary between countries which can include youths in ...

institute in Karlskrona.

Career

In 1760 he was

adjunct professor An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, however the genera ...

at the Faculty of Philosophy of Greifswald University and held lectures in philosophy and mathematics in this function. In 1767 he was appointed full professor of practical philosophy. After Peter Ahlwardt's death (1792), he also took over the theoretical philosophy. In the years 1778, 1793 and 1803 he was rector of the university. Muhrbeck, who published numerous philosophical writings, was a staunch supporter of Christian Wolff and a staunch opponent of

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...

. His son Friedrich Philipp Albert Muhrbeck later also taught philosophy in Greifswald, but was a follower of Kant and

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kan ...

. The daughter Ingeborg Juliane Elisabeth Muhrbeck (1784-1824) married the lawyer and historian

Karl Schildener Karl Schildener (26 August 1777 – 28 December 1843) was a German lawyer, legal historian and university lecturer. Life and achievements Schildener was born on 26 August 1777 in Greifswald in what was then Swedish Pomerania. His father was t ...

in 1803.

Erich Gülzow Erich Gülzow (29 March 1888 – 16 August 1954) was a German local historian, philologist and publisher. He wrote books on the history of Vorpommern and Rügen island. Through his publications on Ernst Moritz Arndt he became known beyond the bor ...

: ''Heimatbriefe Ernst Moritz Arndts.'' In Rügisch-Pommerscher Geschichtsverein (edit.): ''Pommersche Jahrbücher'' 3rd supplementary volume, Julius Abel, Greifswald 1919, Muhrbeck died in

at age 72.

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Writings by Johann Christoph Muhrbeck
in ''Gemeinsamen Verbundkatalog'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Muhrbeck, Johann Christoph Swedish philosophers 18th-century philosophers Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Heads of universities in Germany People from Lund 1733 births 1805 deaths

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