Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
Born(1802-11-30)30 November 1802
Died24 January 1872(1872-01-24) (aged 69)
ChildrenFriedrich Trendelenburg
Education
EducationUniversity of Kiel
Leipzig University
University of Berlin (PhD, 1826)
ThesisPlatonis de ideis et numeris doctrina ex Aristotele illustrata (On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas and Numbers as Illustrated by Aristotle) (1826)
August Böckh
Other advisors
Georg Ludwig König
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
German idealism
Aristotelianism
Aristotelian idealism
National liberalism
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin
Doctoral students
Ernst Laas
Friedrich Paulsen
Notable students
Franz Brentano
Hermann Cohen
Wilhelm Dilthey
Rudolf Eucken
Jürgen Bona Meyer
George Morris
Gustav Teichmüller
Main interests
Logic, metaphysics, ethics
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/; German: [ˈtʁɛndələnbʊʁk]; 30 November 1802 – 24 January 1872) was a German philosopher and philologist.