Michael Gottlieb Birckner, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish philosopher
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About Michael Gottlieb Birckner
- Michael Gottlieb Birckner (21 August 1756 – 1 December 1798) was a Danish priest and philosopher. Birckner especially explored the subject of Freedom of Speech.
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- Arnold Barton has characterised Birckner, along with Niels Ditlev Riegels, as being "one of the most original thinkers" of the radical group of authors in Denmark in this period.
- The Danish jurist Peter Germer in his book The Nature of Freedom of Speech (Ytringsfrihedens Væsen, 1973) shows that Birckners ideas was akin to ideas that Scottish-American philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn proposed in his Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government (1948).
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