Ernst Troeltsch
Ernst Troeltsch | |
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| Born | 17 February 1865 |
| Died | 1 February 1923 |
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| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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| Notable students | Gertrud von Le Fort Friedrich Gogarten |
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| Notable ideas | Three principles of historiography (principle of criticism, principle of analogy, principle of correlation) |
Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch (/trɛltʃ/; German: [tʁœltʃ]; 17 February 1865 – 1 February 1923) was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. He was a member of the history of religions school. His work was a synthesis of a number of strands, drawing on Albrecht Ritschl, Max Weber's conception of sociology, and the Baden school of neo-Kantianism.