Died 1911-10-01.
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Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher working in the emerging modern research university, Dilthey aimed to establish the methodological foundations of the human sciences, including history, hermeneutics, and nascent psychology, in relation to the natural sciences.
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Born 19 November 1833 · Died 1 October 1911 · Q60080
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Died 1911-10-01.
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Dilthey developed a typology of the three basic Weltanschauungen, or World-Views, which he considered to be "typical" (comparable to Max Weber's notion of "ideal types") and conflicting ways of conceiving of humanity's r
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Published Die Jugendgeschichte Hegels on the earlier Hegel's political and theological thought
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Married Katherine Puttmann, and the couple had one son and two daughters
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Took up a professorship at the University of Basel, but later—in 1882—he returned to Berlin where he held the prestigious chair in philosophy at the university
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Dilthey was asked to complete the editing of Schleiermacher's letters
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Edited Schleiermacher's letters and soon after he was also commissioned to write a biography—the first volume of which was eventually published in 1870
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Born 1833-11-19.
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As the son of a Reformed pastor in the village of Biebrich in the Duchy of Nassau, now in Hesse, Germany
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