Portrait photo of Friedrich Harms

Friedrich Harms (1819 – 1880) was a German realist philosopher, much influenced by Fichte.

Harms was born on 24 October 1819 in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein. He studied philosophy at the University of Kiel as a pupil of Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus. In 1842 he obtained his habilitation for philosophy at Kiel, where he later became an associate professor (1848; a full professor in 1858). In 1867 he relocated to the University of Berlin as a professor of philosophy.[1][2]

He died on 5 April 1880, in Berlin.

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  1. ^ Briefwechsel 1875 - 1889 by Albrecht Ritschl, Wilhelm Herrmann
  2. ^ Harms, Joachim Friedrich Simon In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5, S. 683 f.