Place

Weimar

Thuringia · Modern Germany

A small Thuringian court town that became a capital of German letters, where Herder spent his career alongside Goethe and Schiller.

Thinkers Connected to Weimar

Johann Gottfried Herder

1744 CE – 1803 CE

He taught that each people has its own genius and each language its own world, planting the seeds of history, culture, and nationhood as we know them.

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