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Krause, Karl Christian Friedrich

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Biographical Introduction

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) studied philosophy in Jena, where he heard Fichte’s lectures (his manuscript of one of Fichte’s lectures was rediscovered and published in the twentieth century, cf. Fichte 1994). For some time he also was a lecturer there. Nonetheless, despite three different “Habilitationen” (at the Universities of Jena, Berlin, and Göttingen), he never became a full professor of philosophy. His last position as a lecturer in Göttingen, where he lived from 1823, was revoked after the revolutionary disturbances in 1831. His son-in-law was involved in these disturbances, also his student Heinrich Ahrens (1808–1874).

Krause had to move to Munich, where he died 1 year later without having gained admission as a lecturer at the University. In all his living places, with or without the possibility of giving academic lectures, Krause kept on writing, so that in Göttingen he struggled with nearly 100 volumes of unpublished manuscripts...

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