Fritz Mauthner

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Born	November 22, 1849 • Bohemia
Died	June 29, 1923 (aged 73) • Germany
Subjects Of Study	epistemology • language

John Locke

English philosopher

David Hume

Scottish philosopher

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

Friedrich Schiller

German writer

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian-born artist

Rudolf Carnap

German-American philosopher

Gottlob Frege

German mathematician and philosopher

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

German philosopher

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Wilhelm, Baron von Humboldt, oil painting by F. Krüger

Wilhelm von Humboldt

German language scholar

Johannes Nikolaus Tetens

German mathematician, economist, and philosopher

Georg Philipp Harsdörfer

German poet

Heinrich Rickert

German philosopher

Salomon Maimon

Jewish philosopher

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in "Plato's Symposium" oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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