Christian Wolff (/ vɔːlf /; less correctly Wolf, [3] German: [vɔlf]; also known as Wolfius; ennobled as Christian Freiherr von Wolff in 1745; 24 January 1679 – 9 April 1754) was a German philosopher. Wolff is characterized as one of the most eminent German philosophers between Leibniz and …

Jul 3, 2006 · Christian Wolff (1679–1754), philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, is widely and rightly regarded as the most important and influential German philosopher between Leibniz and Kant.

Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music and classicist. Wolff was born in Nice, France, to the German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who had published works by Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin.

Jan 20, 2025 · Christian, baron von Wolff (born January 24, 1679, Breslau, Silesia [now Wrocław, Poland]—died April 9, 1754, Halle, Prussia [Germany]) was a philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who worked in many subjects but who is best …

Christian Wolff was a rationalist polymath and an influential leader of the early German Enlightenment. He was born in Breslau into an impoverished family of leather workers. In his academic career, he gained renown by teaching mathematics and became famous for systematizing and updating the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried ...

Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius) (January 24, 1679 - April 9, 1754) was the most eminent German philosopher between Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant. His oeuvre spans almost every scholarly subject of his time, each displayed and unfolded according to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method.

Christian Wolff is often identified by historians of philosophy as a minor figure who links the philosophical systems of Leibniz and Kant. He is typically recognized for systematizing the views of Leibniz from scattered papers and letters and for transforming metaphysics in Germany into a formal academic discipline.

Jul 9, 2019 · Christian Wolff (Breslau 1679–Halle 1754) was the leading figure of German academic philosophy in the first half of the eighteenth century and one of the most systematic thinkers of all times.

Christian Wolff (1679-1754) was a German rationalist philosopher and mathematician which stood out in the historical context of the Enlightenment, a cultural and intellectual movement, especially active in Germany, France and England.

Dec 16, 2023 · Christian Wolff (1679–1754) is a rationalist philosopher of the German Enlightenment known as an encyclopaedic “systematizer of all areas of knowledge” (Haakonssen 2012). He developed a comprehensive, and thoroughly rationalist, philosophical system.