Ulrici, HERMANN, a German writer on philosophy and aesthetics, was born at Pförten in Lower Lusatia, 23d March 1806, studied law at Halle and Berlin, but early devoted himself exclusively to literature and philosophy. In 1834 he was appointed to a chair at Halle, and here he laboured till his death, January 11, 1884. In philosophy he belonged to the theistic school of Fichte the younger, Wirth, and Carriere, revolting from the pantheistic tendencies of Hegel's idealistic rationalism. His first work was his Geschichte der Hellenischen Dichtkunst (1835), which was followed by a very ingenious essay, Ueber Shakespeare's dramatische Kunst (1839; Eng. trans. 1846). Other works are Ueber Princip und Methode der Hegelschen Philosophie (1841); Das Grundprincip der Philosophie (1845-46); and a System der Logik (1852). His books Glauben und Wissen (1858), Gott und die Natur (1862), Gott und der Mensch (1866), and Leib und Seele (1866) naturally appealed to a still wider circle of readers. Further Shakespearian studies were an edition of Romco und Julia (1853) and a Geschichte Shakespeares und seiner Dichtung in vol. i. of the German
Shakespeare Society's version of the Schlegel-Tieck translation (1867).