Erich Adickes

Who was Erich Adickes?

Erich Adickes - German philosopher who wrote many important works on Immanuel Kant and the Kantian philosophy. Adickes was a critical empiricist.

Adickes was born in Lesum, and died in Tübingen where he had been professor of philosophy since 1904. He studied theology, philosophy, and history at Tübingen, then at Berlin under Friedrich Paulsen, graduating Dr. Phil. with a dissertation titled Kants Systematik als systembildender Factor. Habilitating at Kiel in 1895, he became a full professor there in 1898. In 1902 he moved to Münster as full professor, then in 1904 succeeded Christoph von Sigwart at Tübingen.

Adickes was intimately familiar with Kant’s Nachlass, and exhibited extraordinary scholarship in his contributions to vols. 14-19 of Kant's gesammelte Schriften. In his Einleitung in die Abtheilung des handschriftlichen Nachlasses, he tried to date the Reflexionen, but the result is controversial.

Another one of Adickes' important works is titled German Kantian Bibliography - Writings by and on Kant which have appeared in Germany up to the end of 1887