Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg as German philosopher, philologist, Prussian university professor (1802-1872).
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg was born at Eutin in 1802. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. He studied at Leipzig University and Frederick William University Berlin.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
His academic posts were held at Frederick William University Berlin.
The recorded fields of work are immanuel kant and aristotle.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Grand Duchy of Oldenburg matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg died in 1872, aged 70. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at Frederick William University Berlin
- Fields: Immanuel Kant and Aristotle
