Ernst Friedrich Apelt

Ernst Friedrich Apelt (3 March 1812, Reichenau, Saxony – 27 October 1859, Oppelsdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German philosopher and entrepreneur. He was a student of Jakob Friedrich Fries,^[1] succeeding him at the University of Jena. He was the principal contributor to the Abhandlungen der Fries'sche Schule, which he founded with Matthias Jakob Schleiden.^[2]

He was also one of the early scholars of the life and work of Johannes Kepler, a precursor of Alexandre Koyré.

Works

• Metaphysik (1857)

References

• Nick Jardine, "Koyré's Kepler/Kepler's Koyré", History of Science, Vol. 38 (2000), pp. 363–376

Notes

1. Friesian School
2. Pauline M. H. Mazumdar, Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology (1995), p.24.