Rudolf Christoph Eucken was born on 5 January 1846 in Aurich. A German philosopher, Eucken taught at the universities of Basel and Jena. He developed a philosophy of life, often called activism, which held that spiritual life is the central reality and that human beings find meaning by striving for independence from the natural world. His books include The Meaning and Value of Life and The Life of the Spirit, and he was widely read in his time and influential on religious thought. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1908 for his earnest search for truth. His philosophy is now rarely read.
Before and after
- 20 November 1845Battle of Vuelta de Obligado
- from 11 December 1845 to 9 March 1846First Anglo-Sikh War
- 29 December 1845Founding of Atlanta
- from 1846 to 1871California Genocide
- 5 January 1846Birth of Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- from 24 April 1846 to 2 February 1848Mexican-American War
- 5 May 1846Birth of Henryk Sienkiewicz
- from 15 June 1846 to 13 January 1847Conquest of California
- 10 August 1846Founding of Smithsonian Institution
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1830Publication of Book of Mormon
- 1890Rise of Art Nouveau
- 28 December 1895The Lumiere brothers hold the first public film screening
- c. 1900sRise of Expressionism
- 1909Rise of Futurism
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
The era
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