African Spir
Afrikan Spir Alexandrowytsch (Russian Африкан Александрович Спир; Ukrainian Африкан Олександрович Спір; * November 10, 1837 in Elizabeth degrees; † March 26, 1890 in Geneva ) was a Russian- Ukrainian philosopher and logician who wrote his works in German language.
He had great influence on Nietzsche and Theodor Lessing, who wrote his doctoral thesis on him. Spir understood philosophy as a discipline founded as a science first principles. It should highlight the apparent images which conceal the true nature of things. The method of such a philosophy is the determination of facts.
Spir studied at the University of Leipzig with Wilhelm Moritz Drobisch.