The zoologist and philosopher, was an important precursor of Darwinism in Germany. His major work "The Riddle. Community-evident studies of biological philosophy" (1899) was a contemporary standard work with great effect. Ernst Haeckel was only the experience of earlier generations ...

The German mechanic and entrepreneur called in the middle of the 19th Century, in Jena, a small factory for the production of microscopes in life. Within a few decades, Carl Zeiss developed his company into the world's leading producers of ...

The philosopher, political journalist and critic of bourgeois society and of classical economics is as controversial as the most influential theorist of communism. In particular, Karl Marx strove for a scientific analysis to the critique of capitalism. He is considered ...

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 antiquary and writer regarded as the founder of classical archeology and science the new art history. This role was also attributed to the time of the Renaissance humanism acting Flavio Biondo. In his major work "The History of Ancient ...

The German philosopher and mathematician, was one of the leading Enlightenment. Christian Wolff was concerned with the problems of ontology, ethics and logic. Wolff created the system as an important systematist of German rationalism, but we note that Gottfried Wilhelm ...

The German scholar was as natural law philosophers and historians a pioneering role in European intellectual life, when much of the early modern period also. The cruel turmoil of the Thirty Years War and the restructuring of European states in ...