Edmund Montgomery
| Edmund Montgomery | |
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Edmund Montgomery 1864 bust by Elisabet Ney
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| Born |
March 19, 1835 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | April 17, 1911 (aged 76) Texas |
| Citizenship | United States (naturalized) |
| Alma mater |
University of Heidelberg (1852–1855) University of Berlin (1855–1856) University of Bonn (1856–1857) University of Würzburg (1857–1858) |
| Influences |
Arthur Schopenhauer Christian Kapp Robert Bunsen Johannes Peter Müller Hermann von Helmholtz Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Jacob Moleschott |
Edmund Duncan Montgomery (March 19, 1835 – April 17, 1911) was a Scottish philosopher, scientist and physician.
Edmund Duncan Montgomery was born March, 1835, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parentage is unknown, but the Elisabet Ney Museum relates the possibility that he was the son of Isabella Davidson (or Montgomery) and a prominent Scottish jurist, Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay. He and his mother lived in Paris and Frankfurt, supplemented by a trust fund for him.
By the time he entered his teens, he began to be interested in the philosophical works of Arthur Schopenhauer. While still living in Frankfurt and only 13 years old, he participated in the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
In 1852, Montgomery majored in medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he did lab work under Robert Bunsen and came under the influence of Christian Kapp, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and Jacob Moleschott. He later attended lectures by Johannes Peter Müller at the University of Berlin during his 1855–1856 enrollment. While studying in Bonn 1856–1857, he attended influential lectures of Hermann von Helmholtz.
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