Karl Ludwig Michelet

German philosopher (1801–1893)

Karl Ludwig Michelet wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.

The record lists Karl Ludwig Michelet as German philosopher (1801–1893).

Karl Ludwig Michelet was born at Berlin in 1801. His recorded nationality is Germany. He studied at Französisches Gymnasium Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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

His academic posts were held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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.

Karl Ludwig Michelet died in 1893, aged 92. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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