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Hermann Usener
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Hermann Karl Usener (German: [ˈuːzənɐ]; 23 October 1834 – 21 October 1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion.
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Finally, there is another theory which, like the ancestor hypothesis, seeks to derive gods, or at least the beings generally regarded as gods, from more primitive mythological ideas. This theory, which was developed by Hermann Usener, the most prominent student of the science of religion among recent classical philologists, might perhaps be referred to, in distinction from the soul and ancestor hypothesis, as the…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
States what Hermann Usener is; names Hermann Usener.
We are conscious of this in the circles of the learned just as much as among the followers of that science itself. The cause of this lies in its many-sided character, in the lack of an abstract unity, and in the inorganic aggregation of heterogeneous scientific activities which are connected with one another only by the name "Philology." It must be freely admitted that philology is to some extent borrowed from…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Homer and Classical Philology
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All the nobler elements in marriage, slavery, and the State are unchristian. It _required_ the distorting characteristics of worldliness to prove itself. The connection between humanism and religious rationalism was emphasised as a Saxonian trait by Köchly: the type of this philologist is Gottfried Hermann.[14]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner Complete Works, Volume 8
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- Heidelberg University
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- German Empire
- German Confederation
- University of Göttingen
- Comparative religion
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Philology
- Paul Natorp
- Camille Paglia
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Social psychology
- Cultural history
- Marburg
- Classics
- Werner Jaeger
- Ernst Cassirer
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Hermann Alexander Diels
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Part of Epicureanism.