Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1797—1879)

Fichte_I_HGerman philosopher, son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte b. at Jena
July 18, 1797- d. at Stuttgart Aug. 8, 1879. He was for many years a
gymnasial professor at Saarbrucken and Dusseldorf, and then professor
of philosophy at Bonn 1836-42 (ordinary professor after 1840), and at
Tubingen 1842-63. In 1863 he retired from the university and soon
afterward settled in Stuttgart. He edited his father's works, founded
and edited the Zeitschrift fur Philosophie und spekulative Theologie,
and was a prolfic writer on philosophy. In metaphysics his position
was that of a mediator between the two conflicting views represented
by Hegel and Herbart, and, too, in the interest of theology. His great
aim was to secure a philosophical basis for the personality of God.
Taking the monadology of Leibniz as the model of a system embracing
unity in plurality and plurality in unity, he sought to fuse extreme
spiritualistic monism and extreme pluralistic realism into what he
called concrete theism. The more important of his independent works
are, Beitrdge zur Charakteristik der rteuern Philosophie (Sulzbach,
1829; 2d ed., completely rewritten, 1841); Religion und Philosophie
(Heidelberg, 1834); Die speculative Theologie (3 parts, 1846); System
der Ethik (2 vols., Leipsic, 1850-53); Anthropologie (18-56);
Vermischte Schriften (2 vols., 1869); Die theistische Weltansicht und
ihre Berechtigung (1873); and Der neuere Spiritualismus (1878).