Rosenkranz, KARL, philosopher, a pupil of Hegel, was born at Magdeburg on 23d April 1805, studied in Berlin, Halle, and Heidelberg, taught at Halle as privat-docent (1828), and as professor of Philosophy (1831), in 1833 was called to the chair of Philosophy in Königsberg, and there he died, blind, on 14th June 1879. He was a man of wide culture and a voluminous writer, his works including Encyclopädie der theologischen Wissenschaften (2d ed. 1845), Psychologie (3d ed. 1863), Kritische
Erläuterungen des Hegelschen Systems (1840), criticisms of Schleiermacher's (1836) and Strauss's Doctrines of Belief (1845), Meine Reform des Hegelschen Systems (1852), and Wissenschaft der logischen Idee (1858-59) in philosophy, and books on the History of Poetry, Diderot's Leben und Werke (1866), Leben Hegels (1844), Goethe und seine Werke (2d ed. 1856) in literature. He also edited, with Schubert, Kant's Werke (12 vols. 1838-40).
See his autobiographical Von Magdeburg nach Königsberg (1873) and Life by Quäbicker (1879).