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Harald Høffding | |
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 Harald Høffding c. 1915 | |
| Born | (1843-03-11)11 March 1843 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 2 July 1931(1931-07-02) (aged 88) Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy Danish philosophy |
| Main interests | Theology,psychology |
Harald Høffding (11 March 1843 – 2 July 1931) was a Danishphilosopher andtheologian.
Born Høffding was born inCopenhagen, the son of businessman Niels Frederik Høffding and Martha Høffding (née Jhellerup). The family lived at thecorner of Gammeltorv andNørregade. Høffding became a schoolmaster, and ultimately in 1883 a professor at theUniversity of Copenhagen. He was strongly influenced bySøren Kierkegaard in his early development, but later became apositivist, retaining and combining with it the spirit and method of practicalpsychology and the critical school.[1] The physicistNiels Bohr studied philosophy from and became a friend of Høffding. The philosopher and authorÁgúst H. Bjarnason was a student of Høffding.
Høffding's great-nephew was the statisticianWassily Hoeffding.
Høffding died in Copenhagen.
His best-known work is perhaps hisDen nyere Filosofis Historie (1894), translated into English from the German edition (1895) by B.E. Meyer asHistory of Modern Philosophy (2 vols., 1900), a work intended by him to supplement and to correct that of Hans Brøchner to whom it is dedicated. HisPsychology, the Problems of Philosophy (1905) andPhilosophy of Religion (1906) also have appeared in English.[1]
Among Høffding's other writings, most of which have been translated into German, areDen engelske Filosofi i vor Tid (1874);Etik (1876);Psychologi i Omrids paa Grundlag af Erfaring (ed. 1892);Psykologiske Undersøgelser (1889);Charles Darwin (1889);Kontinuiteten i Kants filosofiske Udviklingsgang (1893);Sören Kierkegaard als Philosoph (1896);Det psykologiske Grundlag for logiske Domme (1899);Rousseau und seine Philosophie (1901);Mindre Arbejder (1899).[1]
A commemorative plaque on the facade ofAlexandrahus in Copenhagen (Nørregade 1) commemorates that Høffding was born on the site.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Höffding, Harald".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 561.
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