List of German-language philosophers
This list includes philosophers from German speaking countries, who have published their works in German language.
With few exceptions, the names and birthplaces are the Metzler philosophers Dictionary (1995 ) removed (ISBN 3-476-01428-2 ). Also, with few exceptions, is not on this list by name since the 18th century, since before the German philosopher wrote primarily in Latin (see: List of Latin philosophers ).
A
- Günter Abel ( born 1947 ), Homberg
- Erich Adickes (1866-1928), Bremen
- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), Frankfurt am Main
- Hans Albert ( born 1921 ), Cologne
- Johannes Althusius (~ 1563-1638 ), Diedenshausen
- Günther Anders (1902-1992), Wroclaw
- Karl- Otto Apel (* 1922), Dusseldorf
- Ernst Friedrich Apelt (1812-1859), Reichenau
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Linden
B
- Franz von Baader (1765-1841), Munich
- Bruno Bauer (1809-1882), Eisenberg
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762), Berlin
- Eduard Baumgarten (1898-1982), Freiburg
- Hans Michael Baumgartner (1933-1999), Munich
- Heinrich Beck ( born 1929 ), Munich
- Oskar Becker (1889-1964), Leipzig
- Werner Becker (1937-2009), Lauterbach
- Ansgar Beckermann (* 1945), Bielefeld
- Balthasar Bekker (1634-1698), Amsterdam
- Michael Benedikt (1928-2012), Vienna
- Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798-1854), Berlin
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), Berlin
- Wilhelm Raimund Beyer (1902-1990), Nuremberg
- Walter Biemel (* 1918), Brasov
- Peter Bieri ( born 1944 ), Bern
- Ernst Bloch (1885-1977), Ludwigshafen
- Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996), Lübeck
- Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), Görlitz
- Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848), Prague
- Friedrich Ludewig Bouterweck (1766-1828), Oker
- Franz Brentano (1838-1917), Boppard
- Martin Buber (1878-1965), Vienna
- Thomas Buchheim ( * 1957 ), Munich
C
- Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970), Ronsdorf
- Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), Wroclaw
- Hermann Cohen (1842-1918), Coswig
- Christian August Crusius (1715-1775), Leuna
D
- Paul Deussen (1845-1919), Oberdreis
- Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), Wiesbaden
- Andreas Dorschel (* 1962), Wiesbaden
- Karl Eugen Dühring (1833-1921), Berlin
E
- Hans Ebeling ( born 1939 ), Braunschweig
- Meister Eckhart (* ~ 1260-1328 ), Hochheim or Tambach
- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Barmen
F
- Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), Landshut
- Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994), Vienna
- Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796-1879), Jena
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), Rammenau
- Franz Fischer (1929-1970), Lower Austria
- Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), Prague
- Rainer Forst ( * 1964 ), Wiesbaden
- Manfred Frank (* 1945), Wuppertal
- Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), Wismar
- Hermann Friedmann (1873-1957), Heidelberg
- Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773-1843), Jena
- Erich Fromm (1900-1980), Frankfurt q.s.
G
- Hans -Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), Marburg
- Christian Garve (1742-1798), Wroclaw
- Arnold Gehlen (1904-1976), Leipzig
- Jean Gebser (1905-1973), Poznan
- Joseph Geyser (1869-1948), Erkelenz
- Karen Gloy ( born 1941 ), Itzehoe
- Carl Goering (1841-1879), Leipzig
- Eberhard Grisebach (1880-1945), Hannover
- Gotthard Günther (1900-1984), Arnsdorf
B
- Jürgen Habermas ( born 1929 ), Dusseldorf
- Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), Potsdam
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), Königsberg
- Wolfgang Harich (1923-1995), Königsberg
- Dirk Hartmann (born 1964 ), Erlenbach am Main
- Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), Riga
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Stuttgart
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Meßkirch
- Carl Gustav Hempel (1905-1997), Oranienburg
- Hans- Eduard Hengstenberg (1904-1998), Homberg
- Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841), Oldenburg
- Richard Herbertz (1878-1959), Cologne
- Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), Morag
- John Hesse (1889-1971), Lobberich
- Moses Hess (1812-1875), Bonn
- Otfried Hoffe (* 1943), Leobschutz
- Hans Heinz Holz (1927-2011), Frankfurt am Main
- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), Zuffenhausen
- August Horneffer (1875-1955), Treptow an der Rega
- Vittorio Hösle (* 1960), Milan
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), Potsdam
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Proßnitz
J
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819), Dusseldorf
- Günther Jacoby (1881-1969), Königsberg
- Peter Janich ( * 1942 ), Munich
- Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), Oldenburg
- Hans Jonas (1903-1993), Mönchengladbach
K
- Kambartel Friedrich (* 1935), Münster
- Kamlah Wilhelm (1905-1976), chief village
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Königsberg
- Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), Prague
- Geert Keil ( b. 1963 ), Dusseldorf
- Ludwig Klages (1872-1956), Hannover
- Klimke Friedrich (1878-1924), Golleow
- Wolfgang Kluxen (1922-2007), Bensberg
- Panagiotis Kondylis (1943-1998), Olympic
- Karl Korsch (1886-1961), Tostedt
- Victor force (1880-1975), Vienna
- Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), Eisenberg
L
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777), Mulhouse
- Emil Lask (1875-1915), Wadowice
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Leipzig
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), Kamenz
- Godehard Link (* 1944), Eickelborn
- Hans Lipps (1889-1941), Pirna
- Hermann Lotze (1817-1881), Bautzen
- Kuno Lorenz ( born 1932 ), Vachdorf
- Paul Lorenzen (1915-1994), Kiel
- Karl Lowith (1897-1973), Munich
- Hermann Luebbe (* 1926), Aurich
- Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), Lüneburg
- Georg Lukács (1885-1971), Budapest
- Rosa Luxembourg (1871-1919), Zamosc
- Holger Lyre (* 1965 )?
M
- Ernst Mach (1838-1916), Turas
- Salomon Maimon (~ 1752-1800 ), I
- Ernst Marcus (1856-1928), Kamen
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), Berlin
- Odo Marquard (* 1928), Stolp
- Karl Marx (1818-1883), Trier
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), Dessau
- Jürgen Mittelstraß (* 1936), Dusseldorf
- Willy Moog (1888-1935), Neuengronau
N
- Paul Natorp (1854-1924), Dusseldorf
- Leonard Nelson (1882-1927), Berlin
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), skirts at Lutzen
O
- Klaus Oehler (* 1928), Solingen
- Otto Peter Upper Meier ( born 1941 ), Zurich
P
- Michael Pauen (* 1956), Krefeld
- Annemarie Pieper ( b. 1941 ), Dusseldorf
- Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985), Wiesbaden
- Otto Pöggeler (* 1928), Attendorn
- Karl Popper (1902-1994), Vienna
- Richard David Precht (* 1964), Solingen
- Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694), Dorfchemnitz
R
- Jakob Friedrich Reiff (1810-1879), Vaihingen an der Enz
- Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953), Hamburg
- Carl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823), Vienna
- Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936), Gdansk
- Alois Riehl (1844-1924), Bolzano
- Heinrich Rombach (1923-2004), Freiburg
- Karl Rosenkranz (1805-1879), Magdeburg
- Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), Kassel
S
- Lothar Schäfer ( b. 1934 ), ?
- Johannes Scheffler, called Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), Wroclaw (?)
- Max Scheler (1874-1928), Munich
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854), Leonberg
- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), Wroclaw
- Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), Berlin
- Wilhelm Schmid ( * 1953 ), Billenhausen
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Gdansk
- Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761-1833), Heldrungen
- Oswald Schwemmer (* 1941), Hilden
- Siewerth Gustav (1903-1963), Hofgeismar
- Christoph von Sigwart (1830-1904), Tuebingen
- Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm von Sigwart (1789-1844), Remmingsheim
- Georg Simmel (1858-1918), Berlin
- Peter Sloterdijk ( b. 1947 ), Karlsruhe
- Alfred Sohn -Rethel (1899-1990), Neuilly -sur -Seine
- Andreas Urs Sommer (born 1972 ), Zofingen
- Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), Blankenburg
- Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Kraljevec
- Max Stirner (1806-1856), Bayreuth
- David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874), Ludwigsburg
T
- Bernhard H. F. Taureck (* 1943), Hildesheim
- Jacob Taubes (1923-1987), Vienna
- Gustav Teichmüller (1832-1888), Braunschweig
- Christian Thiel ( born 1937 ), Neusalz on the Oder
- Christian Thomasius (1655-1728), Leipzig
- Ernst Topitsch (1919-2003), Vienna
- Ernst Tugendhat ( born 1930 ), Brno
V
- Eric Voegelin (1901-1985), Cologne
W
- Wilhelm Weischedel (1905-1975), Frankfurt am Main
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007), Kiel
- Wellmer Albrecht ( born 1933), Mountain Churches
- Wilhelm diaper band (1848-1915), Potsdam
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Vienna
- Christian Wolff (1679-1754), Wroclaw
Z
- Volker Zotz (* 1956), Luxembourg
- Klaus Zweiling (1900-1968), Berlin
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