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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1744, Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, pastor, poet, and literary critic who moved through the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. He argued that true German culture was to be discovered among das Volk — the common people — and that folk songs, folk poetry, and folk dances carried der Volksgeist, the spirit of the nation. That conviction led him to establish or advance hermeneutics, linguistics, anthropology, and a secular philosophy of history. He died in 1803, having reoriented an entire intellectual tradition toward the vernacular.