Gottfried

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clergyman human literary critic philosopher poet theologian translator writer

Gottfried is the given name of Johann Gottfried Herder, an influential 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic associated with the Sturm und Drang movement and early Romanticism.

Aliases (2)

Johann Gottfried Herder ×59
Godfried ×1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	clergyman → human → literary critic → philosopher → poet → theologian → translator → writer →
birthDate	1744-08-25 →
birthPlace	Duchy of Prussia → Mohrungen →
countryOfCitizenship	Duchy of Prussia → Kingdom of Prussia →
deathDate	1803-12-18 →
deathPlace	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach NERFINISHED → Weimar →
educatedAt	University of Königsberg →
ethnicGroup	German →
genre	literary criticism → philosophy → poetry → theology →
givenName	Gottfried →
influenced	Friedrich Schiller → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel → German Romanticism → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe → Wilhelm von Humboldt → modern nationalism theory →
influencedBy	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Immanuel Kant → Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Johann Georg Hamann →
languageOfWorkOrName	German →
movement	Counter-Enlightenment → German Idealism (precursor) → Sturm und Drang → Weimar Classicism → early Romanticism →
notableIdea	Volksgeist (spirit of a people) → cultural relativism in aesthetics and morals → language as constitutive of thought → nation as a cultural-linguistic community → philosophy of history as organic development →
notableWork	Another Philosophy of History for the Education of Humanity → Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity → On the New German Literature → Treatise on the Origin of Language → Voices of the Peoples in Their Songs →
occupation	Lutheran pastor → court preacher → literary critic → philosopher → poet → theologian → translator →
positionHeld	General Superintendent in Weimar →
religion	Lutheranism →
spouse	Maria Karoline Flachsland →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach → Johann Gottfried Herder → Johann Gottfried Herder →	givenName
Jeffrey ("Godfried") →	etymologicalRoot
Lorraine Gary →	familyName