Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
Born(1802-11-30)30 November 1802
Died24 January 1872(1872-01-24) (aged 69)
ChildrenFriedrich
Education
EducationUniversity of Kiel
Leipzig University
University of Berlin (PhD, 1826)
ThesisPlatonis de ideis et numeris doctrina ex Aristotele illustrata (On Plato's Doctrine of Ideas and Numbers as Illustrated by Aristotle) (1826)
Academic advisorsKarl Leonhard Reinhold
August Boeckh
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Georg Ludwig König
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolGerman idealism
Aristotelianism
Aristotelian idealism
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin
Doctoral studentsFriedrich Paulsen
Notable studentsFranz Brentano
Wilhelm Dilthey
Rudolf Eucken
Ernst Laas
Main interestsLogic, metaphysics
Notable ideasTrendelenburg's gap
Motion as the fundamental fact common to being and thought
Putting the organic/teleological view of the world on a modern foundation

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (/ˈtrɛndələnbɜːrɡ/; German: [ˈtʁɛndələnbʊʁk]; 30 November 1802 – 24 January 1872) was a German philosopher and philologist.