Ludwig Strümpell


Ludwig Strümpell, after his ennoblement in 1870 von Strümpell, was a German philosopher and pedagogue.

Biography

Strümpell was born in Schöppenstedt in Lower Saxony, the son of a dyer. He studied philosophy at the University of Königsberg, where he was influenced by Johann Friedrich Herbart, and continued his studies at the University of Leipzig. In 1845, he became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Dorpat, and after 1871 served as a professor at the University of Leipzig. He died in Leipzig in 1899 but was buried in his home town Schöppenstedt, which made him an honorary citizen.
He married Sophie, the sister of August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, the distinguished Baltic German researcher of the Latvian language and culture, and had two children, Adolf and Emilie, the mother of the composer and paranormal researcher Emil Mattiesen

Works

He became known as a prominent representative of Herbart's philosophy and published Erläuterungen zu Herbarts Philosophie, Die Hauptpunkte der Herbartschen Metaphysik kritisch beleuchtet, Gedanken über Religion und religiöse Probleme, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Metaphysik, Psychologie und Religionsphilosophie, and Vermischte Abhandlungen aus der theoretischen und praktischen Philosophie.