Martin Knutzen | |
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Born | |
Died | 29 January 1751 Königsberg, Prussia | (aged 37)
Education | University of Königsberg (MA, 1733; PhD, 1734) |
Era | 18th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Age of Enlightenment Rationalism |
Institutions | University of Königsberg |
Notable ideas | Synthesis of religious Pietism, Wolffian metaphysics, and Lockean epistemology[1] |
Martin Knutzen (14 December 1713 – 29 January 1751) was a German philosopher, a follower of Christian Wolff and teacher of Immanuel Kant, to whom he introduced the physics of Isaac Newton.