Gottlob Frege

Tags: Philosopher.

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (German: [ˈɡɔtloːp ˈfreːɡə]; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German mathematician logician and philosopher. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern logic and made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics. He is generally considered to be the father of analytic philosophy for his writings on the philosophy of language and mathematics.

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birth date

1848-11-08

birth place

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Wismar, German Confederation

death date

1925-07-26

death place

Weimar Republic, Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Bad Kleinen

era

20th-century philosophy, 19th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118535161

influenced

Bertrand Russell, Edmund Husserl, Giuseppe Peano, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michael Dummett, Rudolf Carnap, Analytic philosophy, Gershom Scholem

influenced by

Ernst Abbe, Hermann Lotze, Kuno Fischer, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

LCCN Id

n/79/117996

main interest

Mathematical logic, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mathematics

notableIdea

First-order logic, Principle of compositionality, Predicate logic, Sense and reference, Logicism

philosophicalSchool

Analytic philosophy