Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) was a German poet, critic, and philosopher.
Short Biography:
Herder's critical writings indicated his intuitive rather than reasoning trend of thought. He collected folk songs and poetry of all nations, published as Summen der Volker in Liedern / Voices of the People in Song (1778), and in the Ideen zur Philosophic der Geschichte der Menschheit / Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (1784-1791) he outlined the stages of human cultural development.
He gave considerable impulse to the Romantic Sturm und Drang / Storm and Stress movement in German literature.
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Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, poet and literary critic.
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