Edmund Pfleiderer

Edmund Pfleiderer (October 12, 1842, Stetten im Remstal (now a part of Kernen, Baden-Württemberg) – April 3, 1902, Tübingen) was a German philosopher and theologian.

Biography

He entered the ministry (1864) and during the Franco-Prussian War served as army chaplain, an experience described in his Erlebnisse eines Feldgeistlichen (1890). He was afterwards appointed professor ordinarius of philosophy at Kiel (1873), and in 1878 he was elected to the philosophical chair at Tübingen. He published works on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, empiricism and scepticism in David Hume's philosophy, modern pessimism, Kantic criticism, English philosophy, Heraclitus of Ephesus and many other subjects.

The theologian Otto Pfleiderer was his older brother.

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References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pfleiderer, Otto". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.