Afrikan Spir
Afrikan Spir | |
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Photograph of Afrikan Spir taken by Fred Boissonnas c.1887 (Fonds Fred Boissonnas, Bibliothèque de Genève) | |
| Born | 10 November 1837 |
| Died | 26 March 1890 (aged 52) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Main interests | |
Afrikan Alexandrovich Spir, also spelled African Spir (1837–1890), was a Russian philosopher of German-Greek descent who wrote primarily in German, but also French.
His book Denken und Wirklichkeit (Thought and Reality, 1873) had a significant influence on several eminent philosophers, scholars and writers such as Hans Vaihinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Leo Tolstoy and Rudolf Steiner.