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Johann Gottfried von Herder (/ ˈ h ɜːr d ər / HUR-dər; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈhɛʁdɐ]; [15] [16] [17] 25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a Prussian philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic.
Edited by Henry Hardy and released posthumously in 2000, the collection comprises the previously published works Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (1976) – an essay on Counter-Enlightenment thinkers Giambattista Vico and Johann Gottfried Herder – and The Magus of the North: J. G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern ...
Johann and Georg Forster accompanied the explorer James Cook as the naturalists on Cook's second voyage, 1772–1775. On this voyage on board of HMS Resolution , they circumnavigated the world, crossing the Antarctic Circle for the first time in history, and discovered and visited many islands, especially in the South Pacific Ocean .
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) broke new ground in philosophy and poetry, as a leader of the Sturm und Drang movement of proto-Romanticism. Weimar Classicism ("Weimarer Klassik") was a cultural and literary movement based in Weimar that sought to establish a new humanism by synthesizing Romantic, classical, and Enlightenment ideas.
Originally named the Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Gymnasium, in honor of Johann Gottfried Herder the German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic, it began operating in 1909 as a reform school, and graduated its first class in 1917. In 1910 the school moved to a current location on the Friessenstrasse 3–4.
Among the poets living in Weimar were the most famous German authors of their time, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Martin Wieland and Johann Gottfried Herder. The concept and character of the courtyard of the muses and Anna Amalias image, role and personal motives have been reviewed and largely "deconstructed" during ...
Johann Gottfried Edmund Koken (4 June 1814, Hanover - 30 October 1872, Hanover) was a German landscape and portrait painter. Biography.
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (11 May 1715 – 27 May 1739) was a German musician. It is not known whether he composed, [ 1 ] and his career as an organist is not in itself notable, but his life throws light on his famous father, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach .