Friedrich Bernhard Ferdinand Michelis

German theologian and philosopher (1815-1886)

Friedrich Bernhard Ferdinand Michelis wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.

The record lists Friedrich Bernhard Ferdinand Michelis as German theologian and philosopher (1815-1886).

Friedrich Bernhard Ferdinand Michelis was born at Münster in 1815. His recorded nationality is Germany.

The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.

His academic posts were held at Theological Faculty of Paderborn.

Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.

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

Friedrich Bernhard Ferdinand Michelis died in 1886, aged 71. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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