FEUERBACH

(foi’ér-bah), Ludwig Andreas, a German metaphysician, son of the celebrated jurist, was born at Land shut in Bavaria in 1804, died in 1872. After studying theology and philosophy at Heidelberg and Berlin, he became a trtor (Privatdozent) at Erlangen University in 1828. As his negative views in theology were obnoxious to the Government, and thus deprived him of ail chance of a profe orship, he resigned, and the latter part of his life was pa ed in straitened circumstances, All transcendental ideas, such as God, immortality, ., Feuerbach came to regard as deleterious illusions, and considered that the direct contact of the senses with things alone gave the full truth. The conception of Ged is, according to Feuerbach, merely the projection of man’s ideal into the objective world. His works include a Critique of Hegel (1839); Th E ence of Christianity (1841; translated by George Hliot, 1854); The E ence of Religion (1849); Ameen” Breedom, and Immortality FEUERBACH, Paul Johann Anselm, father of the preceding, German criminal jurist, was born at Jena in 1775, died in 1833. Baving published his first work, entitled Anti-Hobbes, in 1798, he began in 1799 to deliver lectures on law at Jena as Privatdozent. In 1801 he became an ordinary profe or of jurisprudence at Jena, but the following year accepted a chair at Keil. In 1804 he obtained an appointment in the University of Land shut, where he was employed to draw up the plan of a criminal code for Bavaria, which received the royal as sent in 1813. In1814 he was appointed second president of the Appeal Court at Bamberg, and in 1817 first president of the Appeal Court for the circle of Rezat at Anspach. Among his most interesting and important works are: Merkwirdige Criminal-ftille and Phemis, or Contributions to the Ari of Law-making.