Yeshe, Gottlob Benjamin

Gottlob Veniamin Yeshe ( German: Gottlieb Benjamin Jaesche ; 1762 - 1842 ) is a German philosopher, a student of Kant , best known as the publisher of his lectures on logic (the so-called “Yeshe Logic” , published in 1800). Professor of the University of Dorpat .

Gottlob Benjamin Yeshe
him. Gottlieb benjamin jaesche
Portrait of G.V. Yeshe by E. Gau
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Place of Birth	Wartenberg , Silesia , Prussia
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Born in Wartenberg ( Silesia ) in the family of a pastor and rector of the city school. After home preparation, from 1777 to 1783 he studied at the St. Elizabeth Gymnasium in Breslau ^[1] , then (1783-1785) - at the theological faculty of the University of Gallic , where in 1795 he defended his doctoral dissertation, which manifested the influence of Kant's philosophy, listen whose lectures in Konigsberg he went back in the fall of 1791.

In 1792-1799 he was a home teacher at the Firks in Kurzeme . In 1799 he became privat-docent of the University of Koenigsberg , and from 1802 to 1839 he was a professor of theoretical and practical philosophy at the University of Dorpat; repeatedly elected dean of the faculty. Yeshe was the first to give a psychology course at the university. Since 1822 - State Counselor. In 1827 he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree.

In 1800, having published the logic of Immanuel Kant, he defended his philosophy, trying to connect Kant's thoughts with the views of the anti-Kantians Jacob Friedrich Frieze and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ; He was also an opponent of the philosophy of Schelling and Hegel . He supported the consolidation of the rationalist worldview of I.F. Parrot and C.S. Morgenstern at the University of Derpt.

Yeshe presented the part of the Kant archive that he had with his friend Karl Morgenstern, the founder of the University of Dorpat library, who bequeathed it to the university library ^[2] .

His son Georg Emanuel Yeshe (1815–1876) was a physician in the Russian Empire, and his other son, Emmanuel Yeshe (1821–1907), was a military doctor. Grandson Ernst Gottlieb Yeshe (1867-1945) (Est.) - Estonian priest.