Christian Garve
Garve, Christian (Breslau, 1742-98, Breslau) succeeded C. F. Gellert as professor of moral philosophy at Leipzig (1769), but soon resigned and returned to Breslau to devote himself to writing. His interest in English philosophy is exemplified in his translation of Adam Ferguson's Institutes of Moral Philosophy (Grundsätze der Moralphilosophie, 1772). He also translated Edmund Burke's Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful (Über den Ursprung unserer Begriffe vom Erhabenen und Schönen, 1773). In his early years Schiller was influenced by Ferguson through the medium of Garve's translation. Garve's principal philosophical interest was ethical and his method eclectic. His chief original works are Über Gesellschaft und Einsamkeit (1797-1800) and Versuche über verschiedene Gegenstände aus der Moral, Litteratur und dem gesellschaftlichen Leben (1792-1802).
