1807 in philosophy

1807 in philosophy

Events

• Francis Wollaston is elected Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, but the election is declared invalid by the Visitor on the grounds that Wollaston has never been a Fellow of the College.

Publications

• The Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Births

• 30 June – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German philosopher of art (died 1887)
• 8 October – Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and women's rights advocate (died 1858)
• 13 December – Giuseppe Pecci, Italian Jesuit Thomist theologian (died 1890).

Deaths

• 17 August – Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, philosopher, statesman and scientist (born 1736)

References