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Eduard von Hartmann
(1842-1906)
Born 1842, von Hartmann was originally an officer in the Prussian
army. Because of an illness, he retired from military service and
took up an intensive study of philosophy. In 1869 his Philosophie
des Unbewussten (Philosophy of the Unconscious) appeared, and made
famous almost overnight. Of the many other works he wrote, this book
remained his most famous. Rudolf Steiner describes a personal impression
of von Hartmann, whom he visited in Berlin in following a philosophical
correspondence with him over some. This account may be found in Chapter IX
of Steiner's auto-biography. Steiner's
Wahrheit und Wissenschaft
(Truth and Knowledge)
was dedicated to von Hartmann. Hartmann died in 1906.
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