German Enlightenment

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Enlightenment movement historical period intellectual movement

The German Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement in German-speaking Europe characterized by advances in philosophy, literature, theology, and science, and associated with figures such as Immanuel Kant, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn.

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Label Occurrences
German Enlightenment canonical 40
Berlin Enlightenment 3
Austrian Enlightenment 1

Statements (66)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment movement ⓘ
historical period ⓘ
intellectual movement ⓘ
coreIdea autonomy of the individual ⓘ
critique of authority ⓘ
education reform ⓘ
freedom of thought ⓘ
public sphere of debate ⓘ
religious tolerance ⓘ
separation of church and state ⓘ
use of reason ⓘ
country German-speaking Europe ⓘ
developedConcept aesthetic theory of the sublime ⓘ
historical-critical method in theology ⓘ
public use of reason ⓘ
religion within the bounds of reason alone ⓘ
field literature ⓘ
natural science ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
theology ⓘ
hasKeyFigure Albrecht von Haller ⓘ
Christian Thomasius ⓘ
Christian Wolff ⓘ
Friedrich Nicolai ⓘ
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ⓘ
Immanuel Kant ⓘ
Johann Christoph Gottsched ⓘ
Johann Georg Hamann ⓘ
Johann Gottfried Herder ⓘ
Johann Gottlieb Fichte ⓘ
Johann Heinrich Lambert ⓘ
Johann Joachim Winckelmann ⓘ
Johann Salomo Semler ⓘ
Moses Mendelssohn ⓘ
hasKeyWork Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ
Nathan the Wise ⓘ
Phädon ⓘ
What is Enlightenment? ⓘ
hasPart literature in the German Enlightenment ⓘ
philosophy in the German Enlightenment ⓘ
science in the German Enlightenment ⓘ
theology in the German Enlightenment ⓘ
influenced German idealism ⓘ
surface form: German Idealism

Romanticism ⓘ
surface form: German Romanticism

Haskalah ⓘ
surface form: Jewish Haskalah

modern German philosophy ⓘ
modern biblical criticism ⓘ
influencedBy Scottish Enlightenment ⓘ
surface form: British Enlightenment

Empiricism ⓘ
Age of Enlightenment ⓘ
surface form: French Enlightenment

Humanism ⓘ
Pietism ⓘ
Cartesianism ⓘ
surface form: Rationalism
language German ⓘ
mainRegion Holy Roman Empire ⓘ
Prussia ⓘ
movement Age of Enlightenment ⓘ
nativeLabel Deutsche Aufklärung ⓘ
politicalContext absolutist monarchies in German states ⓘ
reforms under Frederick II of Prussia ⓘ
relatedMovement Aufklärung ⓘ
Haskalah ⓘ
religiousContext Judaism ⓘ
Lutheranism ⓘ
Protestantism ⓘ
startTime 18th century ⓘ

Referenced by (47)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Age of Enlightenment → hasPart → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Caroline von Humboldt → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Johann Gottfried Herder → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Frederick II of Prussia → influenced → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Humboldt family estate → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Fichtean idealism → historicalContext → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Christian Wolff → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Sturm und Drang → relatedTo → German Enlightenment ⓘ
On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Deutsche Aufklärung → hasPart → German Enlightenment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Berlin Enlightenment
Deutsche Aufklärung → hasPart → German Enlightenment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Austrian Enlightenment
Johann Christoph Gottsched → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Friedrich Nicolai → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Johann Salomo Semler → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Albrecht von Haller → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Jena → historicalEra → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Phädon → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Christian Thomasius → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Humboldt family mausoleum → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Formula of Autonomy → philosophicalTradition → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Philosophia prima sive ontologia → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Weimar Classicism → relatedTo → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Friedrich Schiller’s poem "An die Freude" → literaryPeriod → German Enlightenment ⓘ
subject surface form: An die Freude
Anna Amalia of Prussia → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Berlin Enlightenment
Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Fliegender Brief → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
University of Halle → influenced → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Halle Enlightenment → partOf → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Swiss Enlightenment → influencedBy → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Mendelssohns "Phaedon" → mainTheme → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Mendelssohns "Phaedon" → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Morgenstunden, oder Vorlesungen über das Dasein Gottes → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Berlin Enlightenment
Gottsched → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
subject surface form: Johann Christoph Gottsched
Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek → historicalContext → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Beschreibung einer Reise durch Deutschland und die Schweiz → hasCulturalContext → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Sebaldus Nothanker → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen → historicalContext → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Ausführliche Redekunst → historicalPeriod → German Enlightenment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Early Enlightenment in German-speaking Europe
Deutsche Schaubühne → culturalContext → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Critische Dichtkunst → literaryMovement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Leipzig literary circles → partOf → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Abhandlung von freier Untersuchung des Kanon → context → German Enlightenment ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Protestant Enlightenment
Institutiones jurisprudentiae divinae → intellectualTradition → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Monatsgespräche → associatedWith → German Enlightenment ⓘ
Heinrich Leopold Wagner → movement → German Enlightenment ⓘ
this entity surface form: German Enlightenment (literary context)