Ernst Friedrich Apelt (3 March 1812 in Reichenau, Saxony – 27 October 1859 in Oppelsdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German philosopher and entrepreneur. He was a student of Jakob Friedrich Fries,[1] succeeding him at the University of Jena. He was the principal contributor to the Abhandlungen der Fries'sche Schule, which he founded with Matthias Jakob Schleiden.[2]
He was also one of the early scholars of the life and work of Johannes Kepler, a precursor of Alexandre Koyré.His son Otto Friedrich Apelt made important contributions to the debate on the nature of the categories of Aristotle.[3]
Works
- Metaphysik (1857)
Notes
- ^ Friesian School
- ^ Pauline M. H. Mazumdar, Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology (1995), p.24.
- ^ Venanzio Raspa, Otto Apelt: La dottrina delle categorie di Aristotle,Quodlibet 2020 pp.74-81.
References
- Nick Jardine, "Koyré's Kepler/Kepler's Koyré", History of Science, Vol. 38 (2000), pp. 363–376