Tennemann, WILHELM GOTTLIEB

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 130

Tennemann, WILHELM GOTTLIEB, historian of philosophy (1761–1819), lectured at Jena, became professor at Marburg in 1804, and wrote, from the Kantian point of view, a Geschichte der Philosophie (vols. i.–xi. 1798–1819), and a shorter history (1812), translated as a Manual of the History of Philosophy (1852), long a text-book in Britain.

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