Karl Rosenkranz
Karl Rosenkranz | |
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| Born | Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz April 23, 1805 |
| Died | July 14, 1879 (aged 74) |
| Spouse | Laure Adéline Aspasie Cécile (née Gruson) |
| Children | 3 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Berlin University of Halle (Ph.D., 1828) University of Heidelberg |
| Thesis | Abhandlung über die Periodisierung der deutschen Nationalliteratur (1828) |
| Academic advisor | Leopold von Henning[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | German idealism |
| Institutions | University of Halle University of Königsberg |
| Notable students | Ferdinand Gregorovius |
| Main interests | Philosophy of nature, epistemology, aesthetics |
| Notable ideas | Aesthetics of ugliness |
Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (German: [ˈʁoːzn̩kʁants]; April 23, 1805 – July 14, 1879) was a German philosopher and pedagogue.
Life
Born in Magdeburg, he read philosophy at Berlin, Halle and Heidelberg, devoting himself mainly to the doctrines of Hegel and Schleiermacher. After holding the chair of philosophy at Halle for two years, he became, in 1833, a professor at the University of Königsberg. In his last years, he was blind.[2]
He died in Königsberg.
Philosophy
Throughout his long professorial career, and in all his numerous publications he remained, in spite of occasional deviations on particular points, loyal to the Hegelian tradition as a whole. In the great division of the Hegelian school, he, in company with Michelet and others, formed the "centre," midway between Erdmann and Gabler on the one hand, and the "extreme left" represented by Strauss, Feuerbach and Bruno Bauer.[2]
Karl Rosenkranz was the editor-in-chief of Hegel's Collected Works, vols. 1–12 (1832–44). He published Hegel's Life (1844) as a supplement to these Works.[3] He personally met Hegel and talked with him about philosophy. Rosenkranz had access to Hegel's manuscripts, letters, and the recollections of students, family members, and acquaintances.[3]
Rosenkranz's writings on pedagogy were popular in translation among the St. Louis Hegelians. They appeared (translated by Anna Brackett) in multiple volumes of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.[4]
Selected works
- Kritik der Schleiermacherschen Glaubenslehre (1836)
- Psychologie oder Wissenschaft vom subjektiven Geist (1837; 3rd edition, 1863)
- Kritische Erläuterungen des Hegelschen Systems (1840)
- Vorlesungen über Schelling (1842)
- Hegels Leben (1844). English: The Life of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel by Karl Rosenkranz (Scholarly Translations, 2026)
- System der Wissenschaft (1850)
- Meine Reform der Hegelschen Philosophie (1852)
- Ästhetik des Häßlichen (Königsberg 1853). English: Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition. Bloomsbury 2015.
- Wissenschaft der logischen Idee (1858–59), with a supplement (Epilegomena, 1862)
- Diderot's Leben und Werke (1866)
- Hegels Naturphilosophie und die Bearbeitung derselben durch Vera (1868)
- Hegel als deutscher Nationalphilosoph (1870)
- Erläuterungen zu Hegels Encyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1871).[2]
Between 1838 and 1840, Rosenkranz published an edition of the works of Kant in conjunction with F. W. Schubert, to which he appended a history of the Kantian doctrine.[2]
References
- ^ Waszek, Norbert (2025). "Hegelianism, Theology and Politics in Karl Rosenkranz: Some Historical Remarks on a Still Relevant Question" (PDF). Filozofia. 80 (1). Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences: 52–66. doi:10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.1.4. ISSN 0046-385X. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ a b Karl Rosenkranz, Die phänomeneologische Krisis des Systems bis 1807, in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels Leben (1844, rpt; Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1977), 201–15. As quoted in Shannon, Daniel (DePauw University) (March 1, 2021). "Rosenkranz's Report on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Short Analysis" (PDF). Academia Letters (Article 243): 1–5. doi:10.20935/AL243. OCLC 8941331255. Archived from the original on March 28, 2025. Retrieved March 28, 2025. (Academia.edu; ivi: p. 1) (under CC BY 4.0 license)
- ^ See e.g. Rosenkranz, Karl (January 1878). Brackett, Anna C. (ed.). "The Science of Education". Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 12 (1): 67–81.; Rosenkranz, Karl (October 1873). "Pedagogics As A System". Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 7 (4): 1–27.
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rosenkranz, Johann Karl Friedrich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 735.
External links
- Works by Karl Rosenkranz at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Karl Rosenkranz at the Internet Archive
- Works by Karl Rosenkranz at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Almost complete collection of Rosenkranz' works as PDFs (most from GoogleBooks)