Died 1926-09-14.
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Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life", after he had been nominated by a member of the Swe…
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culture · 19th/20th-century German philosopher (1846–1926) · philosopher · writer · university teacher · prose writer · also Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Rudolf Eucken, Eucken
Born 5 January 1846 · Died 14 September 1926 · Q47695
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1908).
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1926· 1 entry
1913· 1 entry
Served as a Deem lecturer at New York University
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1911· 1 entry
And spent six months lecturing at Harvard University and elsewhere in the United States in 1912–1913
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1908· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1908).
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1898· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector of the University of Jena (1898–1899).
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1886· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector of the University of Jena (1886–1887).
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1879· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector of the University of Jena (1879–1880).
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1871· 1 entry
After five years working as a school teacher at Husum, Berlin und Frankfurt, he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel, Switzerland, succeeding another of his former teachers at Göttingen, Gusta
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1866· 1 entry
With a dissertation titled De Aristotelis dicendi ratione
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1846· 1 entry
Born 1846-01-05.
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