Karl Krause
| Karl Christian Friedrich Krause | |
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Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Lithography published in Die reine d.i. allgemeine Lebenlehre und Philosophie der Geschichte, Göttingen 1843.
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| Born | 6 May 1781 Eisenberg, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg |
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27 September 1832 (aged 51) Munich |
| Alma mater | University of Jena |
| Era | 19th century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
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German idealism Krausism |
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Mysticism |
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Panentheism |
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Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (German: [ˈkʀaʊzə]; 6 May 1781 – 27 September 1832) was a German philosopher, born at Eisenberg, in Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. His philosophy, known as "Krausism", was very influential in Restoration Spain.
Educated at first at Eisenberg, he proceeded to the nearby University of Jena, where he studied philosophy under professors Friedrich W. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel and Johann Gottlieb Fichte and became Privatdozent in 1802. In the same year, with characteristic imprudence, he married Sophie Amalie Concordia Fuchs (born 1780), without dowry. Two years later, lack of pupils compelled him to move to Rudolstadt and later to Dresden, where he gave lessons in music.
In 1805 his ideal of a universal world-society led him to join the Freemasons, whose principles seemed to tend in the direction he desired. In Dresden he published two books on Freemasonry, Höhere Vergeistigung der echt überlieferten Grundsymbole der Freimaurerei: in zwölf Logenvorträgen (1811) and Die drei ältesten Kunsterkunden der Freimaurerbrüderschaft (1819), but his opinions attracted opposition from the Masons.
He lived for a time in Berlin and became a privatdozent, but was unable to obtain a professorship. He therefore proceeded to Göttingen (where he taught Arthur Schopenhauer) and afterwards to Munich, where he died of apoplexy at the very moment when the influence of Franz von Baader had at last obtained a position for him.
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