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  1. Johann Gottfried von Herder (/ ˈ h ɜːr d ər / HUR-dər, German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈhɛʁdɐ]; 25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.He is associated with the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.He was a Romantic philosopher and poet who argued that true German culture was to be discovered among the ...

  2. Oct 23, 2001 · Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) is a philosopher of the first importance. This judgment largely turns on the intrinsic quality of his ideas (of which this article will try to give some impression).

  3. Johann Gottfried von Herder (born August 25, 1744, Mohrungen, East Prussia [now Morag, Poland]—died December 18, 1803, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar [Germany]) was a German critic, theologian, and philosopher, who was the leading figure of the Sturm und Drang literary movement and an innovator in the philosophy of history and culture.His influence, augmented by his contacts with the young J.W. von ...

  4. Johann Gottfried Herder, Gemälde von Anton Graff, 1785, Gleimhaus Halberstadt. Herders Unterschrift: Johann Gottfried Herder Johann Gottfried Herder, ab 1802 von Herder (Rufname Gottfried, * 25. August 1744 in Mohrungen, Ostpreußen; † 18. Dezember 1803 in Weimar), war ein deutscher Dichter, Übersetzer, Theologe sowie Geschichts- und Kultur-Philosoph der Weimarer Klassik.

  5. HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED(1744–1803) Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher and critic, was born in Mohrungen in East Prussia. His father was a schoolteacher and he grew up in humble circumstances. Source for information on Herder, Johann Gottfried (1744–1803): Encyclopedia of Philosophy dictionary.

  6. The anthropological sensibility has often been seen as growing out of opposition to Enlightenment universalism. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is often cited as an ancestor of modern cultural relativism, in which cultures exist in the plural.

  7. Aug 25, 2018 · On August 25, 1744, German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic Johann Gottfried Herder was born. He was one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the German language in the Age of Enlightenment and, together with Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Wolfgang Goethe [] and Friedrich Schiller,[] is one of the classical four stars of Weimar.

  8. Johann Gottfried von Herder, (born Aug. 25, 1744, Mohrungen, East Prussia—died Dec. 18, 1803, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar), German critic and philosopher.Trained in theology and literature, he initially worked as a teacher and preacher at Riga. As court preacher at Bückeburg, he produced works, including Plastik (1778) and Essay on the Origin of Language (1772), that made him the leading figure of ...

  9. Supplementary Discussion 1. Herder’s Role in the Birth of Linguistics and Anthropology. Herder—especially in the Ideas—laid the foundations for the modern discipline of linguistics, namely, with the following five principles (the first three of which we have already encountered):. Thought is essentially dependent on and bounded by language—i.e., one can only think if one has a language ...

  10. 25.08.1744 – 18.12.1803. Herder was a teaching assistant in Riga at the Dome School (1764-1769), an assistant to the city librarian (1764-1769) and an assistant pastor