FICHTE, Mete, Immanuel Hermann von, German philosopher: b. Jena, 18 July 1796; d. Stuttgart, 8 Aug. 1879. He was a son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (q.v.). He was gradu ated at the University of Berlin in 1818. Soon after .he became a lecturer in philosophy at this institution. As a result of semi-official suggestions, based on official disapproval of his supposedly liberal views, he decided, in 1822, to leave Berlin, and accepted a professorship at the gymnasium in Saarbriicken. In 1826 he went in the same capacity to Dusseldorf. In 1836 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1840 ordinary professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he quickly became a successful and much admired lecturer. Dis satisfied with the reactionary tendencies of the Prussian Ministry of Education, he accepted a call to the chair of philosophy at the Uni versity of Tubingen in 1842 where he con tinned to give lectures on all philosophic sub jects until his retirement in 1862 when he moved to Stuttgart. As a philosopher he was of lesser importance than his father. In his philosophy he was a theist and strongly opposed to the Flegelian School. The additional char acteristics of mysticism and eclecticism, which are frequently attributed to him, are only partially deserved. His greatest gift, perhaps, was his breadth of vision, enabling him to do justice to and give a philosophic interpretation of practically every new development and dis covery throughout the long period of his in tellectual activity (1818-1879). He was a very prolific writer. Many of his shorter works ap peared in the Zeitschrift fur Philosophic und Speculative Theologie, which Fichte founded in 1837 and which he edited from then on, later with Ulrici and Wirth, when the name was changed to. Zeitschrift fir Philosophic und Philosophische Kritik after a short period of suspension (1848-52). Of his many pub lished works the following may be especially mentioned: (Sitze zur Vorschule der Theologic' (Stuttgart 1826) ; (Beitrage zur Charakteristik der Neueren Philosophie' (Sulzbach 1829) ; ("Ober Gegensatz, Wendepunkt und Ziel Heuti ger Philosophic' (3 parts, Heidelberg 1832-36) ; (Grundzuge zum Systeme der Philosophie' (3 parts, Heidelberg 1833-46) ; und Philosophic in ihrem Gegenwartigen Verhalt niss) (Heidelberg 1834) ; Idee der Per sonlichkeit und der Individuellen Fortdauer) (Elberfeld 1834) ; (Die Spekulative Theologie) (3 parts, Heidelberg 1846-47) ; (Grundsitze fur die Philosophic der Zukunft' (Stuttgart 1847) ; (System der Ethik> (2 vols., Heidelberg 1850
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