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FISCHER, ERNST KUNO BERTHOLD (1824–1907)

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FISCHER, See also:ERNST KUNO BERTHOLD (1824–1907) , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at Sandewalde in See also:Silesia, on the 23rd of See also:July 1824. After studying See also:philosophy at See also:Leipzig and See also:Halle, he became a privat-docent at See also:Heidelberg in 185o. The See also:Baden See also:government in 1853 laid an See also:embargo on his teaching owing to ' For a brief See also:review of the See also:pharmacology of See also:purin derivatives see F. See also:Francis and J. M. See also:Fortescue-Brinkdale, The Chemical Basis of Pharmacology (1908). his Liberal ideas, but the effect of this was to rouse considerable sympathy for his views, and in 1856 he obtained a professorship at See also:Jena, where he soon acquired See also:great See also:influence by the dignity of his See also:personal See also:character. In 1872, on See also:Zeller's removal to See also:Berlin, Fischer succeeded him as See also:professor of philosophy and the See also:history of See also:modern German literature at Heidelberg, where he died on the 4th of July 1907. His See also:part in philosophy was that of historian and commentator, for which he was especially qualified by his remarkable clearness of exposition; his point of view is in the See also:main Hegelian. His Geschichte der neuern Philosophie (1852–1893, new ed. 1897) is perhaps the most accredited modern See also:book of its See also:kind, and he made valuable contributions to the study of See also:Kant, See also:Bacon, See also:Shakespeare, See also:Goethe, See also:Spinoza, See also:Lessing, See also:Schiller and See also:Schopenhauer. Some of his numerous See also:works have been translated into See also:English: Francis Bacon of Verulam, by J.

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Oxenford (1857); The See also:Life and Character of See also:Benedict Spinoza, by Frida See also:Schmidt (1882); A Commentary on Kant's Kritik of Pure See also:Reason, by J. P. See also:Mahaffy (1866); See also:Descartes and his School, by J. P. Gordy (1887); A Critique of Kant, by W. S. Hough (1888); see also H. Falkenheim, Kuno Fischer and See also:die litterar-historische.Methode (1892); and bibliography in J. M. See also:Baldwin's See also:Dictionary of Philosophy and See also:Psychology (1905).

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