Haym, RUDOLF, philosopher and writer, was born at Grünberg in Silesia on 5th October 1821. In 1848 he sat in the national assembly at Frankfurt; but in 1851 he began to lecture on philosophy and German literature at Halle, and was eventually appointed professor there in 1868. He has written biographies of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1856), Hegel (1857), Schopenhauer (1864), and Herder (1877-85), as well as a useful monograph, Die Romantische Schule (1870).
Haym, RUDOLF
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 599
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