Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Wikipedia
Born: May 19, 1762, Rammenau, Germany
Died: January 29, 1814 (age 51 years), Berlin, Germany
Education: Leipzig University (1781–1784), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, (1780–1781), Landesschule Pforta, Internatsgymnasium, and more
Influenced: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Arthur Schopenhauer, and more
Influenced by: Immanuel Kant, René Descartes, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and more
Children: Immanuel Hermann Fichte