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Theodor Elsenhans
1862–1918
A German psychologist and neo-Kantian philosopher, he worked at the meeting point of philosophy, religion, and the emerging science of mind. His books helped bring psychology and logic to students and general readers in the early 20th century.
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Psychologie und Logik: zur Einführung in die Philosophie
by Theodor Elsenhans
About the author
Born in Stuttgart on March 7, 1862, he later died in Dresden on January 3, 1918. Reliable reference sources describe him as a German psychologist and neo-Kantian philosopher, and his surviving publications show a strong interest in making psychology and philosophy teachable and systematic.
His best-known works include Lehrbuch der Psychologie and Psychologie und Logik zur Einführung in die Philosophie. Those titles suggest the kind of writer he was: someone trying to connect careful psychological observation with larger philosophical questions, especially for students.
Although he is not widely known today, he belongs to an important moment in German intellectual history, when psychology was emerging as its own discipline while still closely tied to philosophy. That makes his work a useful window into how thinkers of his time tried to understand the mind, knowledge, and human experience.