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The Lay of Our Lady: Translated From the German of Frauenlob, With Explanatory Notes (1877)
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The Science of Knowledge: Y J.G. Fichte. Tr. From the German A.E. Kroeger
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Fichte is often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness. Like Descartes and Kant before him, the problem of subjectivity and consciousness motivated much of his philosophical rumination. Fichte also wrote political philosophy, and is thought of by some as the father of German nationalism. His works include: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (1792), Foundations of Natural Right (1796), Characteristics of the Present Age (1806) and Addresses to the German Nation (1808).
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Adolph Ernst Kroeger was an American journalist, philosopher and translator. He was a minor figure in the St. Louis philosophical movement.
Background
Adolph Ernst Kroeger was born on December 28, 1837 at Schwabstedt, near Husum, Duchy of Schleswig (now Germany). He was the eldest child of the Lutheran pastor, Jacob Kroeger. Having assisted at the insurrection against the Danes in 1848, the father found it wholesome to quit the country and settled with his family on a farm near Davenport, Iowa, whither a brother had preceded him. There, till his death in 1857, he bore the hardships of a "Latin farmer" but spent happy hours instructing his son, who became an enthusiast for music, poetry, and philosophy.
Education
Adolph learned Greek, Latin, French, German, and English.
Career
When fifteen years old young Kroeger secured a place as assistant bookkeeper in a Davenport bank. He went East in 1858 and found work on the New York Times, was sent as its correspondent to St. Louis, attracted attention by his political articles, was appointed to a lieutenancy on the staff of General John C. Fremont, and after Fremont's displacement returned to St. Louis to live by journalism, with municipal politics for a side line and philosophy for the real business of his life. He wrote in German and English for several newspapers and periodicals, was elected city treasurer in 1865 for a two-year term, and was one of the mainstays, from its founding in 1867, of William Torrey Harris' Journal of Speculative Philosophy. He had a faculty for conveying German philosophy into fathomable English, his most notable work being his translations of Fichte's New Exposition of the Science of Knowledge (1868; 1889), The Science of Rights (1869; 1889), and The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge (1897). He also translated parts of Leibnitz and Kant and wrote frequently on philosophical topics. Much of his musical and literary criticism, including essays on Hamlet and Poe, is buried in the files of the Missouri Republican.
In 1870 his promising career ended in a cruel downfall. The December before, as unofficial deputy for the city treasurer, M. E. Susisky, Kroeger had given his own personal check for $6, 000 to a creditor of the city and had reimbursed himself with a treasury check that Susisky had signed in blank. No money was misappropriated, vouchers covered the full amount, but when Susisky later defaulted the transaction fell under suspicion; Kroeger was indicted, tried, convicted of forgery in the third degree, and sent to the penitentiary on a five-year sentence.
In 1872 his friends, led by Henry C. Brokmeyer, convinced Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown of his innocence, and his pardon followed. Kroeger returned to St. Louis, exonerated in due form but humiliated, impoverished, sick, and in disrepute. In 1873 he published a little volume on The Minnesinger of Germany. He strove gallantly to support his family by writing for newspapers, completed a romance, a history of the Civil War in Missouri, and other work that never found a publisher, and solaced himself with medieval German poetry and romantic philosophy. His vitality, however, was sinking; late in 1881 he took to his bed, and the next spring he died, leaving his wife and four children in narrow circumstances.
Achievements
Adolph Ernst Kroeger contributed significantly to the understanding of German literature in the United States.
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Connections
Kroeger married Eliza Curren in 1861. His elder son, Ernest Richard, became a musician of prominence in St. Louis; his elder daughter, Alice Bertha, was a well-known reference librarian.
