Johann Christoph Hoffbauer
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Johann Christoph Hoffbauer (19 May 1766,
Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...
– 4 August 1827,
Halle an der Saale Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anh ...
) was a German philosopher, who published extensively on
natural law Natural law ( la, ius naturale, ''lex naturalis'') is a system of law based on a close observation of human nature, and based on values intrinsic to human nature that can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacte ...
, ethics and psychology. From 1785 he studied at the
University of Halle Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...
, where his influences included the anti-
Kantian Kantianism is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). The term ''Kantianism'' or ''Kantian'' is sometimes also used to describe contemporary positions in philosophy of mind, ...
philosopher Johann Augustus Eberhard. In 1794 he became an associate professor, and in 1799 a full professor of philosophy at Halle.


Published works

* ''Tentamina semiologica, sive, Quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia''; translated from Latin by Robert E Innis and published as "Semiological investigations, or, Topics pertaining to the general theory of signs" (1991). * ''Analytik der Urtheile und Schlüsse mit Anmerkungen meistens erläuternden Inhalts'', 1792 – Analysis of judgments and conclusions. * ''Naturrecht aus dem Begriffe des Rechts entwickelt'', 1793 – Natural law from the terms of the developed law. * ''Anfangsgründe der Logik'', 1794 – Rudiments of logic. * ''Untersuchungen über die wichtigsten Gegenstände des Naturrechts'', 1795 – Studies on the most important objects of natural law. * ''Anfangsgründe der Moralphilosophie und insbesondere der Sittenlehre nebst einer allgemeinen Geschichte derselben'', 1798 – Rudiments of
moral philosophy Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns ...
, etc. * ''Untersuchungen über die wichtigsten Gegenstände der Moralphilosophie insbesondere der Sittenlehre und Moraltheologie'', 1799 – Studies on the most important subjects of moral philosophy, in particular, ethics and
moral theology Ethics involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy''"Ethics"/ref> A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that is simply sati ...
. * ''Untersuchungen über die Krankheiten der Seele und die verwandten Zustände'', 1802 – Studies on the diseases of the soul. * ''Geschichte Der Universität Zu Halle Bis Zum Jahre 1805'', (1805) – History of the University to Halle up until the year 1805. * ''Die Psychologie in ihren Hauptanwendungen auf die Rechtspflege nach den allgemeinen Gesichtspunkten der Gesetzgebung'', (1808, 2nd edition 1823) – Psychology in its main applications to the administration of justice in accordance with the general terms of legislation (translated into French by Antoine-Marie Chambeyron in 1827 and published as "''Médecine légale relative aux aliénés et aux sourds-muets; ou, Les lois appliquées aux désordres de l'intelligence''"; with notes by
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and
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). * ''Versuch über die sicherste und leichteste Anwendung der Analysis in den philosophischen Wissenschaften'', 1810 – An essay on the safest and easiest application of analysis for the philosophical sciences. * ''Untersuchung über die Natur und den Ursprung der Geistes-Zerrüttung'', (1810) a translation of
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's "An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement". * ''Das allgemeine oder Natur-Recht und die Moral in ihrer gegenseitigen Abhängigkeit und Unabhängigkeit von einander dargestellt'', 1816 – The general or natural law and morals in their interdependence and independence from each other. * ''Beyträge zur Beförderung einer Kurmethode auf psychischem Wege''; 2 volumes, 1808-1812 (with
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) – Contributions to encouraging a method of treatment using psychic approaches.Most widely held works by Johann Christoph Hoffbauer
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffbauer, Johann Christoph 1766 births 1827 deaths Writers from Bielefeld University of Halle alumni University of Halle faculty 18th-century German philosophers Moral philosophers 19th-century German philosophers