Ernst Platner

Ernst Platner
Portrait by Anton Graff
Born11 June 1744
Died27 December 1818
Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony
EducationUniversity of Leipzig (M.D., 1767)
Era18th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolRationalism[1]
Main interests
History of philosophy, medicine
Notable ideas
The Unconscious
Pragmatic history
Psychosomatic medicine
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Ernst Platner in 1812 by Friedrich Overbeck, Albertinum, Dresden

Ernst Platner (/ˈplɑːtnər/; German: [ˈplatnɐ]; 11 June 1744 – 27 December 1818) was a German anthropologist, physician and Rationalist[1] philosopher, born in Leipzig. He was the father of painter Ernst Zacharias Platner (1773–1855).

  1. ^ a b Frederick Beiser, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 214.
  2. ^ John H. Zammito, Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 250.

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