Afrikan Spir

Afrikan Spir
Photograph of Afrikan Spir taken by Fred Boissonnas c.1887 (Fonds Fred Boissonnas, Bibliothèque de Genève)
Born10 November 1837[1]
Died26 March 1890(1890-03-26) (aged 52)
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Main interests

Afrikan Alexandrovich Spir,[a] also spelled African Spir (1837–1890), was a Russian philosopher of German-Greek descent who wrote primarily in German, but also French.[2][3][4]

His book Denken und Wirklichkeit (Thought and Reality, 1873) had a significant influence on several eminent philosophers, scholars and writers such as Hans Vaihinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Leo Tolstoy and Rudolf Steiner.[b]


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