Quotes:Überweg, Friedrich

Zirkoff, Boris

Überweg, Friedrich. German historian, b. at Leichlingen, in Rhenish Prussia, Jan. 22, 1826; d. June 9, 1871. Educ. at Göttingen and Berlin, he qualified himself at Bonn as Privat-docent in philosophy, 1852. Called to Königsberg, 1862, as extraord. prof., and in 1868 was advanced to the ordinary grade. His compendious, accurate and impartial Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie has been repeatedly re-edited (1st ed., 1863–66; 12th ed., 1923–28; Engl. tr., New York, 1872–74). He preferred to describe his own system of thought as an ideal realism, which refused to reduce reality to thought, but asserted a parallelism between the forms of existence and the forms of knowledge. He also wrote: System der Logik, 1857.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 457

Ueberweg, Friedrich (1826-1871). *A History of Philosophy, from Thales to the present time, Transl. from the 4th German ed. by G. S. Morris, with additional material. New York, 1872-74, 2 vols. The German original work is: Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophic, etc., Berlin, 1863-68, in 3 pts.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 592