{{Short description|German psychologist and neo-Kantian philosopher (1862-1918)}} '''Theodor Elsenhans''' ({{IPA|de|ˈɛlzənhans|lang}}; 7 March 1862 – 3 January 1918) was a German psychologist and [[neo-Kantian]] philosopher.<ref name="StaitiClarke2018">{{cite book|author1=Rodney Parker|editor2=Evan Clarke|editor=Andrea Staiti|title=The Sources of Husserl's 'Ideas I'|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5NdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|year=2018|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=978-3-11-055159-4|pages=13–15|chapter=Theodor Elsenhans}}</ref> He was born in [[Stuttgart]] and died in [[Dresden]].
==Life== Elsenhans started studying theology at the [[University of Tübingen]], but became interested in philosophy. He received his doctorate in 1885. In 1902 he completed his [[Habilitationsschrift]] at [[Heidelberg University]], with a monograph on [[Kant]] and the post-Kantian [[Jakob Friedrich Fries]]. In 1908 he took up a professorship at [[TU Dresden|Dresden University]], where he continued to work on [[epistemology]].<ref name="StaitiClarke2018"/>
==Works== * ''Psychologie und Logik zur Einführung in die Philosophie: für Oberklassen höherer Schulen und zum Selbststudium''[Psychology and logic as an introduction to philosophy: for upper secondary school classes and for self-study], 1890 * ''Wesen und Entstehung des Gewissens: Eine Psychologie der Ethik'' [The nature and origin of conscience: a psyschology of ethics], 1894. * ''Das Kant-Friesische Problem'' [The Kant-Fries problem], 1902. * ''Lehrbuch der psychologie'' [Handbook of psychology], 1912
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