Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg 1802 – 1872

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy and the leading Aristotelian critic of Hegelian idealism in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Long-time professor at Berlin, he edited and interpreted Aristotle's logical and metaphysical works and articulated, in his Logical Investigations, a careful critique of the Hegelian dialectic for concealing under the cover of pure logic an Aristotelian motion that it refused to acknowledge. He shaped Brentano, Kierkegaard, Marx, and Dilthey, and made the history of philosophy a serious academic discipline at the German universities.