Early modern · 1781–1848
Who influenced Bernard Bolzano?
Influences and legacy
Priest-logician who anticipated set theory and sharpened the concept of a limit.
Bernard Bolzano was influenced by Immanuel Kant, and went on to influence Edmund Husserl. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Bernard Bolzano?
Bernard Bolzano was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher and Catholic priest of Italian descent, known also for his liberal views.
He wrote in German, his native language, and most of his work became known only after his death.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Bernard Bolzano?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
Who did Bernard Bolzano influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Bernard Bolzano.
- Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
The line of teachers behind Bernard Bolzano
The longest documented line of influence ending at Bernard Bolzano runs 20 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Bernard Bolzano
Two steps away from Bernard Bolzano
Indirect influences
- Through Immanuel Kant: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The second generation
Contemporaries of Bernard Bolzano
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Bernard Bolzano, with no direct line between them.
- Johann Friedrich Herbart 1776–1841
- F. W. J. Schelling 1775–1854
- Arthur Schopenhauer 1788–1860
- Friedrich Schlegel 1772–1829
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Friedrich Schleiermacher 1768–1834
- Pyotr Chaadayev 1794–1856
- Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
Bernard Bolzano by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 82
- Thinkers downstream
- 17
- Wikipedia languages
- 49 — #27 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Bernard Bolzano
- Who influenced Bernard Bolzano?
- Immanuel Kant.
- Who did Bernard Bolzano influence?
- Edmund Husserl.
- When did Bernard Bolzano live?
- 1781–1848. The map files Bernard Bolzano under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Bernard Bolzano card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Bernard Bolzano in 49 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
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