Heinrich Czolbe - Life

Life

Born the son of a landowner, Czolbe studied medicine in the universities of Breslau, Heidelberg and Berlin. He wrote his inaugural dissertation on the Principles of Physiology (De principiis physiologiae) and received his doctorate in 1844. He subsequently worked in a private practice and from 1848, he was an army doctor. In 1859 he worked as a medical officer in Spremberg and from 1860 to 1867 as a garrison and surgeon in Königsberg . Once released from military service, he devoted himself to philosophy and dealt with Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schleiermacher. He was an intimate friend of Ueberweg and according to Friedrich Albert Lange "his life was marked by a deep and genuine morality".

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