Education
In 1790 he moved to Jena, where he studied Kantian philosophy under Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823).
educationist philosopher theologian university professor
In 1790 he moved to Jena, where he studied Kantian philosophy under Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823).
He received instruction at the Maulbronn monastery, and in 1784 became a student at Tübinger Stift, where he met Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854). Subsequently, he became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Jena, where he remained until 1804. In 1797 with Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), Niethammer was co-editor of the Philosophische Journal.
In 1798 the journal published Friedrich Karl Forberg"s "Entwicklung des Begriffs der Religion" (Development of the Concept of Religion), an essay that Fichte prefaced with "Über den Grund unsers Glaubens an eine göttliche Weltregierung" (Grounds of our belief in a divine government of the universe).
Philanthropinism valued practical and physical education, and largely rejected rote-learning of the classics. Niethammer agreed with the philanthropinists in that a measure of autonomy was important in education, but found their teaching philosophy too extreme.
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.