Johann Gottfried Herder

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On August 25, 1744, German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic Johann Gottfried Herder was born. He was one of four influential writers and thinkers of the German language in the Age of Enlightenment and, together with Christoph Martin WielandJohann Wolfgang Goethe, and Friedrich Schiller, is one of the canonical four philosophers of Weimar.