Rudolf Seydel (May 27, 1835 – December 8, 1892) was a German

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 ...

and

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

born in

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. In 1860 he received his habilitation at the

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, where in 1867 he became an associate professor of philosophy. He was a disciple of

Christian Hermann Weisse Christian Hermann Weisse (; ; Weiße in modern German; 10 August 1801 – 19 September 1866) was a German Protestant religious philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He was the son of theologian (1766–1832). Bi ...

(1801-1866), and is remembered for his studies involving parallels between

Buddhism Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gra ...

and

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...

. Seydel died in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

on December 8, 1892.

Selected writings

* ''Schopenhauers philosophisches System'' (

Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer ( , ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work ''The World as Will and Representation'' (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the prod ...

's philosophical system), 1857. * ''Logik oder Wissenschaft vom Wissen'' (Logic or science of wisdom), 1866. * ''Die Religion der Religionen'' (The religion of religions), 1872. * ''Ethik oder Wissenschaft vom Seinsollenden'' (Ethic or science of the Seinsollenden), 1874. * ''Das Evangelium von Jesu in seinem Verhältnis zur Buddhasage und Buddhlehre'' (The Gospel of Jesus in relation to the Buddha legend and teachings), 1882. * ''Die Buddhalegende und das Leben Jesu nach den Evangelien'' (The Buddha legend and the life of Jesus after the

Gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

), 1884. * ''Buddha und Christus'' (Buddha and Christ), 1884. * ''Religion und Wissenschaft. Gesammelte Reden und Abhandlungen'' (Religion and science, Collection of Writings and Papers), 1887. * ''Religionsphilosophie im Umriß'' (Philosophy of religion in outline); (edited by

Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel (December 22, 1851 – April 10, 1935) was a German theologian and professor of New Testament exegesis born in Zaukeroda ( Zauckerode, now a part of Freital, Saxony) near Dresden. He studied theology in Jena, where he h ...

1893).

References

translated biography @

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon ' or ' was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the '. Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing house in 1826, intended t ...

A dictionary of Christ and the Gospels by James Hastings
German philosophers Clergy from Dresden Leipzig University faculty 1835 births 1892 deaths German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub