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FRIEDRICH, a German philosopher; born in Leichlingen, Rhenish Prussia, Jan. 22, 1826; studied UGANDA PROTECTORATE at Göttingen and Berlin; and, after teaching in a school at Elberfeld and lecturing at Bonn University, became in 1862 professor at Königsberg. He is best known by his "S "System of Logic" (1857; 5th ed. 1882; Eng. trans. 1871) and his "History of Philosophy" (1863- 1866; 7th ed. 1886-1888; Eng. trans. 1872), a compendious handbook from an empirical and eclectic standpoint. He gained the Vienna Academy's prize for an essay on the authenticity and order of Plato's works, and an essay on Schiller as historian and philosopher was published posthumously. He died in Königsberg, June 9, 1871.