Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)
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Updated 2026-06-11
He held Hegel's chair at Berlin and spent his career trying to answer a question the natural sciences couldn't: whether history could be a science at all, and if so, what kind.
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Wilhelm Dilthey was born on 19 November 1833 in Germany, and by the time he assumed Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's philosophy chair at the University of Berlin, he was already moving against the idealist current that dominated German thought. His research focused on scientific methodology and the status of historical evidence—whether the study of human life could claim the rigor of science without borrowing the assumptions of British empiricism or positivism. As a polymath working across history, psychology, sociology, and hermeneutic philosophy, he drew his epistemological and ontological fr…
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