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Conrad Hermann
1819–1897
A 19th-century German philosopher and university teacher, he wrote on language, logic, aesthetics, and Shakespeare while spending much of his career in Leipzig. The son of the classical philologist Gottfried Hermann, he moved between philology and philosophy with unusual ease.
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Aesthetische Farbenlehre
by Conrad Hermann
About the author
Born on May 30, 1819, in Anger near Leipzig, Conrad Hermann studied first in Leipzig and Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1840 and later qualifying to teach at the University of Leipzig in 1849. He was the son of the noted philologist Gottfried Hermann, and that scholarly background shows in the range of his interests.
Hermann became a long-serving philosophy lecturer in Leipzig, later serving as an associate professor and eventually as an honorary professor. His work crossed several fields, including philosophy of language, logic, aesthetics, and literary interpretation. Among the books associated with him are studies of language and thought, an aesthetic theory of color, and writings on Shakespeare.
He died on July 15, 1897, in Klosterlausnitz. Although he is not widely known today, he belongs to the rich world of 19th-century German academic philosophy, where questions about language, perception, and culture were closely connected.