Ludwig Strümpell, after his ennoblement in 1870 von StrümpellLudwig Strümpell (1812-1899)

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(28 June 1812 – 18 May 1899), was a German philosopher and

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

Biography

Strümpell was born in

Schöppenstedt Schöppenstedt (; Eastphalian: ''Schöppenstidde'') is a small town in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") of Elm-Asse. Geography It is situat ...

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, the son of a dyer. He studied philosophy at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

, where he was influenced by

Johann Friedrich Herbart Johann Friedrich Herbart (; 4 May 1776 – 14 August 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest ...

, and continued his studies at the

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. In 1845, he became an associate professor of philosophy at the

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(full professor, 1849), and after 1871 served as a professor at the University of Leipzig. He died in Leipzig in 1899 but was buried in his home town Schöppenstedt, which made him an honorary citizen (so far its only one). He married Sophie, the sister of August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (1826–1907), the distinguished

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researcher of the

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and culture, and had two children,

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and Emilie, the mother of the composer and paranormal researcher

Emil Mattiesen Emil Karl Gustav Alfred Mattiesen (23 January 1875Birth date given in his dissertation, Julian calendar: 11 January – 25 September 1939) was a Baltic-German musician, music pedagogue, composer and philosopher. He composed lieder, song cycles, b ...

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Works

He became known as a prominent representative of Herbart's philosophy and published ''Erläuterungen zu Herbarts Philosophie'' (Explanations of Herbart's philosophy, 1834), ''Die Hauptpunkte der Herbartschen Metaphysik kritisch beleuchtet'' (The main points of Herbart's metaphysics critically illustrated, 1840), ''Gedanken über Religion und religiöse Probleme'' (Thoughts on religion and religious problems, 1888), ''Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Metaphysik, Psychologie und Religionsphilosophie'' (Treatise on the history of metaphysics, psychology and the philosophy of religion, 1896), and ''Vermischte Abhandlungen aus der theoretischen und praktischen Philosophie'' (Miscellaneous treatise on topics from theoretical and practical philosophy, 1897).HathiTrust Digital Library
published works

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* 1812 births 1899 deaths 19th-century German philosophers University of Königsberg alumni Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University People from Wolfenbüttel (district) German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub