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page 118th-century German philosophers
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German philosopher (1762–1814)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
German philosopher (1775–1854)
Friedrich Schlegel
German poet, critic and scholar, editor
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)
Christian Wolff
German philosopher (1679–1754)
Johann Heinrich Lambert
German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)
Adam Weishaupt
German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati (1748–1830)
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
German philosopher (b. 1714)
Johann Georg Hamann
German philosopher (1730-1788)
Johann Christoph Gottsched
German writer, dramaturge, linguist and literary theorist as well as professor of poetics, logic and metaphysics (1700–1766)
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
German philosopher (1743-1819)
Christian Thomasius
German philosopher (1655-1728)
Thomas Abbt
German philosopher, mathematician and writer (1738–1766)
Anton Wilhelm Amo
Ghanaian-German philosopher
Johann Bernhard Basedow
German philosopher (1724–1790)
Franz Xaver von Baader
German philosopher and theologian (1765-1841)
Hermann Samuel Reimarus
German philosopher
Salomon Maimon
Lithuanian Jewish philosopher (1753–1800)
Johann Jakob Engel
German philosopher (1741-1802)
Gottfried Achenwall
German historian and jurist (1719–1772)
Adam Müller
German publicist, literary critic, political economist, and theorist of the state
Johann Georg Sulzer
German philosopher (1720 - 1779)
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
German-Danish philosopher (1736-1807)
Jakob Friedrich Fries
German philosopher & scholar
Gottlob Ernst Schulze
German philosopher (1761-1833)
Johann August Ernesti
German theologian
Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
German philosopher
Johann Albert Fabricius
German classical scholar and bibliographer (1668–1736)
Christian Garve
German Enlightenment philosopher
Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer
German philosopher and theologian
Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek
German Hispanist
Susanne von Klettenberg
German abbess and writer
Friedrich Karl Forberg
German philosopher
Heinrich Paulus
German theologian (1761-1851)
Christoph Gottfried Bardili
German philosopher
Johann Augustus Eberhard
German theologian and popular philosopher
Christian August Crusius
German philosopher (1715-1775)
Jacob Friedrich von Abel
German philosopher
Otto Mencke
German philosopher (1644-1707)
Christoph Meiners
German philosopher and historian
Wilhelm Traugott Krug
German philosopher and writer (1770–1842)
Martin Knutzen
German philosopher (1713–1751)
Wilhelm Homberg
Dutch alchemist
Markus Herz
German philosopher (1747-1803)
Johann Heinrich Abicht
German philosopher and university teacher (1762–1816)
Johann Zahn
German writer
Johann Joachim Spalding
German Protestant theologian and philosopher (1714–1804)
Jakob Sigismund Beck
German philosopher
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann
German historian
Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer
German philosopher
Georg Bernhard Bilfinger
German mathematician (1693-1750)