Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (30 November 1802 – 24 January 1872) was a German philosopher and philologist.

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
Born(1802-11-30)30 November 1802
Died24 January 1872(1872-01-24) (aged 69)
Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire
EducationUniversity of Kiel
Leipzig University
University of Berlin (PhD, 1826)
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolGerman idealism
Aristotelianism
Aristotelian idealism
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin
ThesisPlatonis de ideis et numeris doctrina ex Aristotele illustrata (On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas and Numbers as Illustrated by Aristotle) (1826)
Academic advisorsKarl Leonhard Reinhold
August Boeckh
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Georg Ludwig König
Doctoral studentsRudolf Christoph Eucken
Friedrich Paulsen
Other notable studentsFranz Brentano
Wilhelm Dilthey
Ernst Laas
Main interests
Logic, metaphysics
Notable ideas
Trendelenburg's gap, motion as the fundamental fact common to being and thought
Putting the organic/teleological view of the world on a modern foundation
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