Ueberweg, FRIEDRICH, philosopher, was born 22d January 1826 at Leichlingen in Rheinish
Prussia, studied at Göttingen and Berlin, and, after teaching in a school at Elberfeld and lecturing at Bonn University, became in 1862 professor at Königsberg, where he died, 9th June 1871. He is best known by his System of Logic (1857; 5th ed. 1882; Eng. trans. 1871) and his History of Philosophy (1863-66; 7th ed. 1886-88; Eng. trans. 1872), a compendious handbook from an empirical and eclectic standpoint. He gained the Vienna Academy's prize for an essay on the authenticity and order of Plato's works; and an essay on Schiller as historian and philosopher was published posthumously. See a monograph by Lange (1871).