The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kirchmann, Julius von

KIRCHMANN, kĕrk'mạn, Julius von, German writer and philosopher: b. near Meresburg, 1802; d. 1884. Educated in law at Leipzig and Halle, he became, some time afterward, state attorney in the Berlin Criminal Court (1846). He was successively a member of the National Assembly of Prussia (1848) and of the German Reichstag (1871-76). He studied and wrote much upon philosophy of

which he was recognized as one of the leading writers of his day. Among his published works are &lsquo;Die Wertlosigkeit der Jurisprudenz als Wissenschaft&rsquo; (1848); &lsquo;Ueber Unsterblichkeit&rsquo; (1865); &lsquo;Aesthetik auf realistischer Grundlage&rsquo; (1868), and many translations from the great philosophers, including Aristotle, Grotius, Hume, Bacon, Spinoza and Leibnitz. Consult Lasson and Meineke, &lsquo;Julius von Kirchmann als Philosoph&rsquo; (Halle 1885).