Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer

German scholar

Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.

The record lists Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer as German scholar.

Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer was born at Göttingen in 1770. Her recorded nationality is Kingdom of Hanover.

Enlightenment argument moved philosophy into public life: it was now about government, rights and religion as much as metaphysics.

The recorded fields of work are philosophy.

A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.

That the work was done from Kingdom of Hanover matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer died in 1825, aged 55. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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