Education
The physicist Niels Bohr studied philosophy from and became a friend of Høffding.
philosopher university professor
The physicist Niels Bohr studied philosophy from and became a friend of Høffding.
Born and educated in Copenhagen, he became a schoolmaster, and ultimately in 1883 a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He was strongly influenced by Søren Kierkegaard in his early development, but later became a positivist, retaining and combining with it the spirit and method of practical psychology and the critical school. The philosopher and author Ágúst H. Bjarnason was a student Høffding.
Høffding"s great-nephew was the statistician Wassily Hoeffding.
Høffding died in Copenhagen.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.