Johann Gottfried Herder, German poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1803)

Johann Gottfried Herder

German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)

Johann Gottfried von Herder was a Prussian philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic. Herder is associated with the Age of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. He was a Romantic philosopher and poet who argued that true German culture was to be…