Christian Garve, a German philosopher, born in Breslau, Jan. 7, 1742, died there, Dec. 1, 1798. He succeeded Gellert as professor of philosophy at Leipsic in 1709, but ill health compelled him to return to Breslau in 1772. Kant appreciated his rare psychological genius and his benevolent nature. His. numerous writings, some of which are in Latin, relate chiefly to the philosophy of history and of life, and to ethics and literature. He translated works of Aristotle, Paley, and Adam Smith, and Cicero's De Officiis, the last at the suggestion of Frederick the Great, of whom Garve was an enthusiastic admirer, as evinced in his Fragmente relating to that monarch.