Ernst Kuno Berthold Fischer

FISCHER, ERNST KUNO BERTHOLD German philosopher, was born at Sandewalde, Silesia, on July 23, 1824. Educated at Leipzig and Halle, he became a privat docent at Heidelberg in 1850, and in 1856 a professor at Jena. In 1872 he succeeded Zeller at Heidelberg as professor of phi losophy and of the history of modern German literature. In phi losophy, where his attitude was mainly Hegelian, his part was that of an historian and commentator, his chief production being Gesch. der neuern Phil. (1852-93). Fischer also made valuable contributions to the study of Kant, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Bacon, Shakespeare, Goethe, Lessing and Schiller.

The Eng. trans. of his numerous works

are: Francis Bacon, by J. Oxenford (185 7) ; Life of Benedict Spinoza, by F. Schmidt (1882) ; A Commentary on Kant's Kritik of Pure Reason, by J. P. Mahaffy (1866) ; Descartes and his School, by J. P. Gordy (1887) ; A Critique of Kant, by W. S. Hough (1888) . See also H. Falkenheim, Kuno Fischer and die litterar-historische Methode (1892) ; and bibliography in Baldwin's Dict. of Philosophy and Psychology (1905).