Ernst Friedrich Apelt


Ernst Friedrich Apelt was a German philosopher and entrepreneur. He was a student of Jakob Friedrich Fries, succeeding him at the University of Jena. He was the principal contributor to the Abhandlungen der Fries'sche Schule, which he founded with Matthias Jakob Schleiden.
He was also one of the early scholars of the life and work of Johannes Kepler, a precursor of Alexandre Koyré.His son Otto Friedrich Apelt made important contributions to the debate on the nature of the categories of Aristotle.

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