The ''Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik'' was an

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. It was established in 1837 by

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Immanuel Hermann Fichte Immanuel Hermann Fichte (; ; ennobled as Immanuel Hermann von Fichte in 1863; 18 July 1796 – 8 August 1879) was a Germans, German Philosophy, philosopher and son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte. In his philosophy, he was a Theism, theist and strongly o ...

as ''Zeitschrift für Philosophie und spekulative Theologie'' and renamed in 1847. Notable early contributors included

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 ...

. Publication was suspended from 1848 to 1852, after which

Hermann Ulrici Hermann Ulrici (; 23 March 180611 January 1884) was a German philosopher. He was co-editor (with I. H. Fichte) of the philosophical journal ''Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik''. He also wrote under the pseudonym of Ulrich ...

and joined Fichte as editors. The journal served as an outlet for Fichte's views, especially about the

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. It was published by Pfeffer in Halle (Saale) and Haacke in Leipzig. The last volume (165) was issued in 1918.

Notable articles

Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( , ; – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. He played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of ...

's first statement of the Cantor–Bernstein–Schröder theorem, vol. 91, 1887, pp. 81–125. *

Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; ; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic phil ...

, "Über Sinn und Bedeutung" (" On Sense and Reference"), vol. 100, pp. 25–50.

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