Background
Yakov Oze was born on July 9 (21), 1860, in Courland Governorate (now Jelgava, Latvia).
Yakov Oze was born on July 9 (21), 1860, in Courland Governorate (now Jelgava, Latvia).
Yakov Fridrikhovich Oze studied at the gymnasium of Kuldīga. In 1877, he entered the divinity school of the University of Yuryev (now University of Tartu) and studied there under Gustav Teichmüller. In 1882, he graduated from university and received the degree of Theology Candidate. In 1886, he passed an exam for a degree of Candidate of philosophical sciences, in 1888, he took master's degree in philosophy for the essay "Research on Leibniz" term of substance".
In 1884-1888, Yakov Fridrikhovich taught at the Livonia Noble Gymnasium in Fellin. In 1889, on the death of Teichmüller, he was appointed to the philosophy and pedagogics professorship in the University of Yuryev (now University of Tartu).
In 1897, Yakov Fridrikhovich was awarded the degree of Philosophy Doctor at the Moscow University for his thesis research "Personalism and projectivism in metaphysics of Lotze". Since 1893, he was the dean of the historical-philological Department at the University of Yuryev, he was elected as the acting principal several times.
After the February Revolution of 1917, he came forward with an initiative of establishing the University of Latvia. In 1918, during the evacuation of the University of Yuryev, caused by the First World War events, Oze moved to Voronezh together with his students. Since 1918, he was the professor at the Voronezh State University, the first Dean of the historical-philological Department. Expert in History and Philosophy.
In 1888, his book "Untersuchungen Uber den Substanzbegriff bei Leibniz" was published in Dorpat. In 1897, "Personalism and projectivism in metaphysics of Lotze" was published in Yuriev.