The German philosopher, poet and classical scholar spread, tried under the influence of the contemporary theory of natural selection by Charles Darwin, the philosophy of the "superman" to take what the Nazis. In his major work "Thus Spake Zarathustra" Friedrich ...

The philosopher and cultural historian, the founder of the epistemology of the humanities and one of the main proponents of the hermeneutic sciences. In his work, Wilhelm Dilthey is concerned with questions of epistemology, philosophy, psychology, education, arts and literature. ...

The politician and journalist participated in the Baden uprising 1848/49. On his escape he became acquainted with Friedrich Engels. Wilhelm Liebknecht was a follower of the Marxist idea of ​​socialism and joined. Together with August Bebel, he founded the Social ...

The philosopher was the most influential representatives of German idealism. His philosophy is one of the most complex in the history of philosophy and is in effect comparable to that of Plato, Aristotle and Kant. He taught the philosophy of ...

The German poet, writer and educator of the late Enlightenment developed the genre of the novel explanation for their summit. His skepticism was voiced is also a critical Selbstrefflektion to the Enlightenment. Basis of his philosophical ideas was the English ...

The German writer was the greatest poet of the Federal Hainberg. Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty summed up his lyrical works in many cases from antique-style form as ode or idyll. He followed the poetic ideas of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and ...

The German poet embodied as an expressive talent of the poet's circle in Halle (Saale) the formation of the bourgeois part courtly rococo-influenced culture. Johann Peter Uz, Johann Nikolaus Götz created together with the first German translation of the Greek ...

The German philosopher, mathematician and physicist, became with his theory of monads to the universal scholar in the late 17th and early 18 Century. His work also dealt with topics from the fields of theology, law, diplomacy, politics, history, philology, ...