Wilhelm Dilthey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Dilthey

German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1833

Place of Birth: Biebrich, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1911

Profession: historian, psychologist, pedagogue, theologian, university teacher, sociologist, literary critic, philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Wilhelm Dilthey (; German: ['v?lh?lm 'd?lta?]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G.
W.
F.
Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin.
As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science.
He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.