biography
| name: |
Lotze, Rudolf Hermann
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pronunciation:
[lotsuh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1817–81)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Bautzen, E Germany. He studied medicine and philosophy at Leipzig, and went on to become professor of philosophy at Leipzig (1842–4), Göttingen (1844–80), and Berlin (1880–1). He first became known as a physiologist, opposing the popular doctrine of ‘vitalism’, and helped to found the science of physiological psychology, but he is best known for his religious philosophy, Theistic Idealism, expounded in Mikrokosmos (3 vols, 1856–8). |
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