Wilhelm Dilthey, German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (died 1911)

Wilhelm Dilthey

German philosopher (1833–1911)

Wilhelm Dilthey was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research…