Afrikan Spir

Afrikan Spir
Afrikan Spir
	Photograph of Afrikan Spir taken by Fred Boissonnas c.1887 (Fonds Fred Boissonnas, Bibliothèque de Genève)
Born	10 November 1837; Elizabethgrad, Russian Empire; (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine)
Died	26 March 1890 (aged 52); Geneva, Switzerland
Notable work	Thought and Reality, (Denken und wirklichkeit), 1873
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Neo-Kantianism
Main interests	Epistemology; Logic; Morality; Ontology; Philosophy of religion;

Afrikan Spir, also spelled African Spir (1837–1890) was a Russian neo-Kantian philosopher of German-Greek descent who wrote primarily in German, but also French.

His book Denken und Wirklichkeit (Thought and Reality) had a significant influence on several eminent philosophers, scholars and writers such as Hans Vaihinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Leo Tolstoy and Rudolf Steiner.

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