Julius Duboc, c. 1900

Julius Duboc (October 10, 1829 Hamburg - June 11, 1903) was a German author and philosopher.

Biography

Karl Julius Duboc was the brother of the writer and painter Charles Edouard Duboc (1822 - 1910). He studied in Leipzig, Giessen, and Berlin. During his studies he became a member of the Cattia Gießen fraternity in 1849.[1] He also became a student of Ludwig Feuerbach.[2]

In his philosophical writings, Duboc propagated a form of ethically reverent atheism and defended optimism in opposition to Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism. He critiqued Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1897 "Anti-Nietzsche" (Dresden: Helmuth Henkler). He also published historical works as well as essays and novellas. He died in Niederlößnitz in 1903 and was cremated in the Crematorium Gotha.[3]

Works

Evolutionary monism, atheism and the doctrine that pleasure is the end of all human activity find expression in his works, which include:

  • Soziale Briefe (“Letters on society,” 3rd ed. 1873)
  • Geschichte der Englischen Presse (“History of the English press,” 1873)
  • Die Psychologie der Liebe (“The psychology of love,” 1874)
  • Das Leben ohne Gott, Untersuchungen über den ethischen Gehalt des Atheismus (“Life without God, studies on the ethical content of atheism,” 1875)
  • Gegen den Strom (“Against the tide,” a collection of his earlier essays, 1877)
  • Der Optimismus als Weltanschauung (“Optimism as a way of looking at the world,” 1881)
  • Hundert Jahre Zeitgeist in Deutschland (“A hundred years of the spirit of the times in Germany,” 1889)
  • Jenseits von Wirklichen (“On the other side from reality,” 1896)
  • Anti-Nietzsche (Expanded separate publication from "Jenseits vom Wirklichen," 1897)
  • Die Lust als sozialethisches Entwicklungsprinzip (“Desire as a principle of social development,” 1900)
  • Fünfzig Jahre Frauenfrage in Deutschland (“Fifty years of the woman question in Germany,” a collection of essays)

References

  1. ↑ Paul Wentzcke, Burschenschafterlisten. Vol. 2: Hans Schneider und Georg Lehnert: Gießen: Die Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 bis 1936. Görlitz 1942, O. Cattia. Nr. 84.
  2. ↑ Renate Vollbrecht, "Duboc, Julius." Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, pp. 145-146.
  3. ↑ "Todtenschau." Dresdner Geschichtsblatt, No. 1, 1904, p. 227.

Bibliography

  • Renate Vollbrecht (1959), "Duboc, Julius", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 4, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 145–146; (full text online)
  • Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Duboc, Julius" . Encyclopedia Americana.
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