Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg | |
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Born | |
Died | 24 January 1872 | (aged 69)
Education | University of Kiel Leipzig University University of Berlin (PhD, 1826) |
Children | Friedrich |
Era | 19th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | German idealism Aristotelianism Aristotelian idealism[1] |
Institutions | University of Berlin |
Thesis | Platonis de ideis et numeris doctrina ex Aristotele illustrata (On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas and Numbers as Illustrated by Aristotle) (1826) |
Academic advisors | Karl Leonhard Reinhold[2] August Boeckh[3] Friedrich Schleiermacher[3] Georg Ludwig König |
Doctoral students | Rudolf Christoph Eucken Friedrich Paulsen |
Other notable students | Franz Brentano Wilhelm Dilthey Ernst Laas |
Main interests | Logic, metaphysics |
Notable ideas | Trendelenburg's gap, motion as the fundamental fact common to being and thought Putting the organic/teleological view of the world on a modern foundation[4] |
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (/ˈtrɛndələnbɜːrɡ/; German: [ˈtʁɛndələnbʊʁk]; 30 November 1802 – 24 January 1872) was a German philosopher and philologist.