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05.01.1846 Aurich, Friesland, Germany, 
15.09.1926 Jena, Germany, 
1926 Germany?, [I5372], Universities of Berlin and Göttingen. , N: universities of Berlin and Göttingen, professor of philosophy, Jena. Idealist philosopher professor and author of works an ethics and religion and winner of a Nobel Prize. , N: 1871 Philosophy professor. 1908 awarded the NOBEL prize for Literature. Hofrat Prof. Dr. in Jena. Rudolf, born in Aurich, suffered from poor health as a child. In addition, he lost his father Ammo Becker Eucken (1823-1846+) and younger brother early in life. His mother Ida Maria, a deeply religious woman, the daughter of a clergyman, took in lodgers and was able to provide her only surviving offspring with a good education. At Aurich’s gymnasium, he came under the influence of the theologian and philosopher Wilhelm Reuter. At the universities of Gottingen and Berlin, he studied philosophy, philology, and history. He absorbed the ideas of Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg; he took his doctor’s degree at Gottingen where his dissertation dealt with Aristotle’s language. He was a high school teacher for five years after graduation. He published two pamphlets on Aristotle and a work on Aristotelian logic. In 1871 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Basel, Switzerland. From 1874, he held the chair of philosophy at Jena, remaining there until his retirement in 1920. Emphasizing actual human experience as it is “lived�, he was awarded the Nobel prize and enjoyed much international popularity and received invitations to lecture at several universities. His The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers (1890) was widely read in its time. Some of his works ran into more than a dozen editions. Source: Archive Donald C. Poppe, He lost his father Arno Becker Eucken and his younger brother early in life. His mother Ida Maria Gittermann, a deeply religious woman, daughter of a clergyman, took in lodgers and was able to provide her surviving son with a good education. At school he came under the influence of the theologian and philosopher Wilhelm Reuter. In Göttingen and Berlin he studied philosophy, philology and history. He absorbed the ideas of F.A. Trendelenburg; doctor’s degree at Göttingen where his dissertation dealt with Aristoteles’slanguage.
School teacher for 5 years. 1871 University of Basle, professor.
He enjoyed much international popularity.
His “The Problem of Human Life as viewed by the Great Thinkers� (1890) was widely read in its time.
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In 1912-13 he spent six months as an exchange professor at Havard where he met ANDREW CARNEGIE and THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Father Arno Becker Eucken + > 1846, mother Ida Maria Gittermann + >1846.
Source: “The Gildemeister Family Book� Die MAUS, Bremen.
14.09.1882 Jena, Germany
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, 25.04.1863 Halberstadt, Germany, 18.09.1941 Jena, Germany, 1941 Germany, [I5368], liked painting , N: Mother of a daughter and 2 sons, Grandfather Dr. Arnold Thomas Gottfried Passow 1829-1870, grandmother Tibeta Athenaea Ulrichs 1839-1913.
, 03.07.1884 Jena, Germany, 16.06.1950 Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany?, [I8134], «1028»
, 17.01.1891 Jena, Germany, 20.03.1950 London, [I8133], «1029»