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Joseph Dietzgen (1828 – 1888) was a German socialist philosopher Marxist and journalist. Joseph was born in Blankenberg in the Rhine Province of Prussia. He was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen (1794–1887) and mother Anna Margaretha Lückerath (1808–1881). He was like his father a tanner by profession; inheriting his uncle’s business in Siegburg.

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birth date
1828-12-09
birth place
Hennef (Sieg), German Confederation
death date
1888-04-15
death place
Chicago, United States
era
19th-century philosophy
influenced
Karl Marx, Antonie Pannekoek, Vladimir Lenin
influenced by
Baruch Spinoza, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach
main interest
Epistemology, Dialectic, Logic
notableIdea
Dialectical materialism

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