See Also: Gadamer, Hans-Georg(encyclopedia)
Ohm, Georg(medicine)
Solti, Sir Georg(dictionary)
Ziehen, Georg(medicine)
Rindfleisch, Georg(medicine)
Perthes, Georg(medicine)
Meyer, Georg(medicine)
Meissner, Georg(medicine)
Meier, Georg(medicine)
Cantor, Georg(encyclopedia)

Fergus (sh) and Gadamer, Hans-Georg (sh)


Fergus (sh)




Warrior king in the Ulster cycle of Gaelic literature.

In The Cattle Raid of Cooley, Fergus, an exile from Ulster, recalls the deeds of the young Cu Chulainn. Another story tells of the revelation of the Tain in the 7th century by the ghost of Fergus. Fergus is also the subject of poems by William Butler Yeats. He is said to have been shipwrecked off the coast of Northern Ireland งใ AD 320, at the place known as Carrickfergus ("rock of Fergus").


Gadamer, Hans-Georg (sh)




born Feb. 11, 1900, Marburg, Ger.
died March 13, 2002, Heidelberg

German philosopher whose system of philosophical hermeneutics, derived in part from the ideas of Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, was influential in 20th-century Continental philosophy, aesthetics, theology, and literary criticism.

The son of a chemistry professor, Gadamer studied the humanities at the universities of Breslau, Marburg, Freiburg, and Munich, earning a doctorate in philosophy under Heidegger at Freiburg in 1922. He later taught at the universities of Frankfurt am Main (1947-49) and Heidelberg (from 1949), where he became professor emeritus in 1968. In his most important work, Truth and Method (1960), Gadamer developed a General theory of understanding and interpretation modeled on the experience of Art.