1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EUCKEN, RUDOLF CHRISTOPH (1846- ), German philosopher, was born on the 5th of January 1846 at Aurich in East Friesland. His father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his mother, a woman of considerable activity. He was educated at Aurich, where one of his teachers was the philosopher Wilhelm Reuter, whose influence was the dominating factor in the development of his thought. Passing to the university of Gottingen he took his degree in classical philology and ancient history, but the bent of his mind…
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