Paul Jakob Deussen was a German Indologist and professor of Philosophy at University of Kiel. Strongly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer, Deussen was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society . Professor Deussen was the first editor, in 1912, of the scholarly journal Schopenhauer Yearbook .
Paul Deussen was born in 1845 in Oberdreis in the Rhine Province, one of eight children of a clergyman of modest means. He became a student, and lifelong devotee, of the German philosopher Schopenhauer, and of the philosophy of Kant and he became a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche. Deussen was educated at Bonn, Tbingen and Berlin Universities between 1864 and 1881, writing his dissertation on Platos philosophy. Deussen was appointed Privatdocent and Extraordinarius at the university of Berlin, and Ordinarius , at the University of Kiel. Until 1919, Deussen continued to edit the Schopenhauer Yearbook, as well as working on an edition of Schopenhauers works.
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