Gustav Droysen | |
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| Born | 6 July 1808 |
| Died | 19 June 1884 (aged 75) Berlin, Brandenburg, German Empire |
| Education | University of Berlin (PhD, 1831)[3] |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Historism[1] |
| Institutions | University of Berlin University of Kiel University of Jena |
| Thesis | De Lagidarum regno Ptolemaeo IV Philometore rege (1831) |
Main interests | Historical method |
Notable ideas | The erkennen–erklären–verstehen distinction[2] |
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Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen (/ˈdrɔɪzən/; German: [ˈdʁɔʏzn̩]; 6 July 1808 – 19 June 1884) was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men.
- ^ Colin Cheyne, John Worrall (eds.), Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave, Springer 2006, p. 266.
- ^ A distinction among the three methodologies of scientific inquiry: recognising (pertaining to philosophical, theological, and speculative research), explaining (pertaining to mathematical and physical research) and understanding (pertaining to historical research); see: Johann Gustav Droysen, Grundriss der Historik, Verlag von Veit & Comp., 1868, p. 11: §14.
- ^ Kiel University – Famous Scholars from Kiel
- ^ a b Beiser (2011), p. 295.
- ^ Werner Jacob Cahnman, Joseph Maier, Judith Marcus and Zoltán Tarr (ed.), Weber & Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical Perspective: "Max Weber and the Methodological Controversy in the Social Sciences", Transaction Publishers, 1943, p. 42, note 21.