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WAITZ, THEODOR (1821-1864)

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WAITZ, THEODOR (1821-1864) , See also:German psychologist and anthropologist, was See also:born at See also:Gotha on the 17th of See also:March 1821. Educated at See also:Leipzig and See also:Jena, he made See also:philosophy, See also:philology and See also:mathematics his See also:chief studies, and in 1848 he was appointed See also:professor of philosophy in the university of See also:Marburg. He was a severe critic of the philosophy of See also:Fichte, See also:Schelling and See also:Hegel, and considered See also:psychology to be the basis of all philosophy. His researches brought him into See also:touch with See also:anthropology, and he will be best remembered by his monumental See also:work in six volumes, See also:Die Anthropologie der Naturvolker. He died on the 21st of May 1864 at Marburg. In addition to his Anthropologie, the first four volumes of which appeared at Leipzig, 1859–1864, the last two posthumously, he published Grundlegung der Psychologie (1846); Lehrbuch der Psychologie als Naturwissenschaft (1849); Atlgemeine Padagogik (1852); and a See also:critical edition of the See also:Organon of See also:Aristotle (1844).

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