Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
Born	30 November 1802; Eutin, Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire
Died	24 January 1872 (aged 69); Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire
Children	Friedrich
Education
Education	University of Kiel; Leipzig University; University of Berlin (PhD, 1826)
Thesis	Platonis de ideis et numeris doctrina ex Aristotele illustrata (On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas and Numbers as Illustrated by Aristotle) (1826)
Academic advisors	Karl Leonhard Reinhold; August Boeckh; Friedrich Schleiermacher; Georg Ludwig König
Philosophical work
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	German idealism; Aristotelianism; Aristotelian idealism
Institutions	University of Berlin
Doctoral students	Friedrich Paulsen
Notable students	Franz Brentano; Wilhelm Dilthey; Rudolf Eucken; Ernst Laas
Main interests	Logic, metaphysics
Notable ideas	Trendelenburg's gap; Motion as the fundamental fact common to being and thought; Putting the organic/teleological view of the world on a modern foundation

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (/ˈtrɛndələnbɜːrɡ/;^[5] German: [ˈtʁɛndələnbʊʁk]; 30 November 1802 – 24 January 1872) was a German philosopher and philologist.

^ Steven Rockefeller, John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism, Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 78: "[Morris's] studies with Trendelenburg left him with the lasting conviction that philosophy must be grounded in scientific methods of truth, but Trendelenburg guided him away from British empiricism to an Aristotelian idealism."
^ Beiser 2013, p. 122.
^ Beiser 2013, p. 17.
^ ^a ^b Beiser 2013, p. 20.
^ "Trendelenburg". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

Born	(1802-11-30)30 November 1802 Eutin, Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire
Died	24 January 1872(1872-01-24) (aged 69) Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, German Empire
Children	Friedrich

Education
Education	University of Kiel Leipzig University University of Berlin (PhD, 1826)
Thesis	Platonis de ideis et numeris doctrina ex Aristotele illustrata (On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas and Numbers as Illustrated by Aristotle) (1826)
Academic advisors	Karl Leonhard Reinhold^[3] August Boeckh^[4] Friedrich Schleiermacher^[4] Georg Ludwig König [de]
Philosophical work
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	German idealism Aristotelianism Aristotelian idealism^[1]
Institutions	University of Berlin
Doctoral students	Friedrich Paulsen
Notable students	Franz Brentano Wilhelm Dilthey Rudolf Eucken Ernst Laas
Main interests	Logic, metaphysics
Notable ideas	Trendelenburg's gap Motion as the fundamental fact common to being and thought Putting the organic/teleological view of the world on a modern foundation^[2]