Biography:Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart

Short description: German philosopher and logician (1789–1844)

Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm von Sigwart

Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm von Sigwart (31 August 1789 – 16 November 1844) was a German philosopher and logician. He was the father of Christoph von Sigwart (28 March 1830 – 4 August 1904), who also was a philosopher and logician.

Life

Sigwart was born into a family with a long history of philosophers, theologians and physicians at Remmingsheim in Württemberg. From 1813 he served as a repentant at Tübinger Stift in Tübingen, and obtained an associate professorship at the University of Tübingen in 1816. He became a full professor of philosophy at Tübingen in 1818 and wrote numerous books on the history of philosophy. He died in Stuttgart.

Works

• Über den Zusammenhang des Spinozismus mit der Cartesianischen Philosophie (1816). Google (UMich)
• Handbuch zu Vorlesungen über die Logik (1818; 3rd edition, 1835). Google (UCal) Google (UMich)
• Handbuch der theoretischen Philosophie (1820).
• Die Leibnizsche Lehre von der prästabilierten Harmonie (1822). Google (Harvard) Google (UMich)
• Grundzüge der Anthropologie (1827).
• De historia logicae inter Graecos usque ad Socratem commentatio (1832).
• Der Spinozismus: historisch und philosophisch erläutert (1839). Google (Harvard) Google (UCal)
• Die Propädeutik der Geschichte der Philosophie (1840).
• Vergleichung der Rechts- und Staatstheorien des B. Spinoza und des Th. Hobbes (1842). Google (Harvard)
• Geschichte der Philosophie (3 volumes, 1844).

External links

• (in German) Biography in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Vol. 34, pp. 306-308 by Otto Liebmann.