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19th-century German philosophers

  • Friedrich NietzscheOn the 15th of October 1844, a boy named Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in the small town of Röcken. He grew up near Leipzig within the Prussian…
  • Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant lived so rigidly that his neighbors in Königsberg were said to set their watches by his daily walks. He was born Emanuel on the 22nd of April…
  • Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on the 28th of August 1749 in a large house on Großer Hirschgraben in Frankfurt. His father, Johann Caspar Goethe, had…
  • Friedrich SchillerOn the 10th of November 1759, a boy named Friedrich Schiller was born in Marbach. He grew up as the only son of Johann Kaspar Schiller and Elisabetha…
  • Karl MarxOn the 14th of March 1883, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, Friedrich Engels left Karl Marx alone in his armchair for scarcely two minutes.
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born on the 27th of August 1770 in Stuttgart, the capital of the Duchy of Württemberg.
  • Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was born on the 28th of November 1820 in Barmen, Prussia. He grew up in a house surrounded by factories and workers' tenements within the…
  • Edmund HusserlEdmund Husserl was born on the 8th of April 1859 in Proßnitz, a town in the Margraviate of Moravia within the Austrian Empire.
  • Max WeberMaximilian Carl Emil Weber entered the world on the 21st of April 1864 in Erfurt, Province of Saxony. His family moved to Charlottenburg three years later.
  • Georg SimmelGeorg Simmel entered the world on the 1st of March 1858 in Berlin, Germany. He was the youngest child among seven siblings born to an assimilated Jewish…
  • Karl KautskyKarl Johann Kautsky entered the world on the 16th of October 1854 in Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. His father Johann worked as a theatrical scene…
  • Rosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg was shot in the head, her body weighted with stones and dropped into a Berlin canal. It was the night of the 15th of January 1919, and she had…