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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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| Born | May 19, 1762 Rammenau, Electoral Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire
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| Died | January 27, 1814 (aged 51) |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Schulpforta University of Jena (1780; no degree) Leipzig University (1781–1784; no degree) |
| Era | 18th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814), was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant.
Recently, philosophers and scholars have begun to appreciate Fichte as an important philosopher in his own right due to his original insights into the nature of self-consciousness or self-awareness. Fichte was also the originator of thesis–antithesis–synthesis. Fichte also wrote works of political philosophy; he has a reputation as one of the fathers of German nationalism.
He died of typhus at the age of 51. His son, Immanuel Hermann Fichte (18 July 1796 – 8 August 1879), also made contributions to philosophy.
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Tombs of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and his wife Johanna Marie, Dorotheenstaedtischer Friedhof (cemetery), Berlin
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1814
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Johann Gottlieb Spruce monument in the Johann Gottlieb Spruce Park at the Baroque Rammenau Castle in Rammenau
