Background
Rudolf Haym was born on the 5th of October, 1821 in Zielona Góra, Poland.
Rudolf Haym was born on the 5th of October, 1821 in Zielona Góra, Poland.
Haym studied Protestant theology, philosophy and classical philology at Halle and Berlin.
From 1851 Rudolf Haym lectured in literature and philosophy at the University of Halle, and became professor in 1860. His writings are biographical and critical, devoted mainly to German philosophy and literature. In 1870 he published a history of the Romantic school.
Rudolf Haym also wrote biographies of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1856), Hegel (1857), Schopenhauer (1864), Herder (1877–1885) and Max Duncker (1890). In 1901 he published Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben ("Recollections from My Life").
Rudolf Haym was a member of the Alte Halleschen Burschenschaft (1839), member of the National Assembly at Frankfurt (1848), deputy of the Prussian House of Representatives (1866)