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Wilhelm Dilthey (German: [ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian psychologist sociologist and hermeneutic philosopher who held Hegel’s Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher working in a modern research university Dilthey’s research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology historical evidence and history’s status as a science.

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birth date
1833-11-19
birth place
Hesse, German Confederation, Biebrich (Wiesbaden)
death date
1911-10-01
death place
Austria-Hungary, Seis am Schlern
influenced
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Max Weber, Rudolf Steiner, Martin Heidegger, Georg Simmel, Karl Jaspers
influenced by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher, German Romanticism, Johann Gustav Droysen, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
main interest
Intellectual history, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Facticity, Geistesgeschichte, Human science, Verstehen, Hermeneutic circle
philosophicalSchool
Germany, Hermeneutics
region
Western philosophy

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