Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler
Illustration — Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (1830) Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (17 August 1780 – 6 March 1866) was a Swiss physician, politician, and philosopher.
Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler
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- Born
- 1780. · Beromünster.
- Died
- 1866. · Aarau.
- Nationality
- Switzerland.
- Occupation
- psychologist, politician, university teacher, physician, philosopher, naturalist, pedagogue and writer.
- Education
- University of Göttingen and University of Jena.
- Languages
- German.
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Illustration — Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (1830) Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (17 August 1780 – 6 March 1866) was a Swiss physician, politician, and philosopher.
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Early life, education, and career
Early life, education, and career
Troxler was born in August 1780 in Beromünster, Switzerland. He studied in Jena and Göttingen. Among his teachers were Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. After earning his degree, he worked as a physician in Vienna, where he befriended Ludwig van Beethoven and married Wilhelmine Polborn. During that time, Troxler discovered a phenomenon of visual perception which is remarkably often confused with color-fading color-adaptation, that now bears his name, Troxler's fading.
Teaching and later life
Teaching and later life
In 1811, he returned to Beromünster. Troxler represented Switzerland at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In 1820 he became a professor for philosophy and history at the lyceum in Lucerne but had to leave after a year due to political problems. He founded an educational institution in Aarau and continued working as a physician. In 1830, he returned to teaching, this time in Basel; but had to leave once again the next year due to political problems. In 1832 he was elected to the legislative assembly of the canton of Aargau. He became a professor at the newly established University of Berne in 1834, where he stayed until 1850. In 1848, Troxler succeeded in altering the Swiss Federal Constitution to include elements of the United States Constitution.
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Troxler died on 6 March 1866 in Aarau, Switzerland, and is buried there.
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1780
Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler born at Beromünster.
1866
Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler died at Aarau.
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- 1.R. Steucker, « Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler », in J.-F. Mattéi (dir.), Encyclopédie philosophique universelle – Les œuvres philosophiques, vol. 1/2, Paris, PUF, 1992, p. 2158-2160.
- 2.H. U. Iselin, « A Short Biographival Note on I. P. V. Troxler », in Troxlerforum : notice biographique en ligne.
- 3.A. Béguin, L'âme romantique et le rêve – Essai sur le romantisme allemand et la poésie française (1937), Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 1991, chap. VI : « Métaphysique du rêve (Ignaz-Paul-Vital Troxler) », p. 117-134.
- 4.R. Roca, « Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler et la société pédagogique d'Aaru », dans Horizons et débats (édition française de Zeit-Fragen), n° 9, 26 avril 2016.
- 5.G. Gusdorf, Le savoir romantique de la nature, Paris, Payot, 1985, p. 207-208.
- 6.Troxler 1836, traduit de l'allemand dans Béguin 1991.
- 7.Troxler 1812, traduit de l'allemand dans Béguin 1991.
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He also worked under the names Novalis II and Severus Pertinax. His recorded language was German. His recorded confession was Catholic Church. Formation and teaching. Troxler studied at University of Göttingen and University of Jena. The record notes the qualification doctorate. Recorded as psychologist, politician, university teacher, physician and philosopher.
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