German jurist and philosopher

Julius Hermann von Kirchmann (5 November 1802 – 20 October 1884) was a German jurist and philosopher.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Writings
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Kirchmann was educated at Leipzig and Halle. In 1846 he was made state's attorney in the criminal court of Berlin, and two years afterwards was chosen to the Prussian National *embly. From 1871 to 1876 he was a member of the German Reichstag. His philosophy was an attempt to mediate between realism and idealism.

Writings

Kirchmann first attracted attention as a philosopher by his brochure Die Wertlosigkeit der Jurisprudenz als Wissenschaft (The worthlessness of jurisprudence as a body of knowledge; 1848). His other philosophical writings include: Ueber Unsterblichkeit (On immortality; 1865), Aesthetik auf realistischer Grundlage (A realistic foundation for aesthetics; 1868); translations of parts of Aristotle, Roger Bacon, Hugo Grotius, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Baruch Spinoza, and a remarkable edition of Immanuel Kant in the Philosophische Bibliothek, edited by him (1868 et seq.), and of Thomas Hobbes' De Cive (1873).

Notes

References

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Kirchmann, Julius von":. New International Encyclopedia (1st:ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. This work in turn cites:
  • L*on and Meineke, Julius von Kirchmann als Philosoph (Halle, 1885)

External links

• "Kirchmann, Julius von":. Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.