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Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 May 1880
- Died
- 8 May 1936
- Place of birth
- Blankenburg
- Place of death
- Munich
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Oswald
- Family name
- Spengler
- Father
- Bernhard Spengler
- Mother
- Pauline Grantzow
- Movement
- Conservative Revolution
- Occupation
- historian, philosopher, sociologist, mathematician, writer, philologist, opinion journalist, philosopher of culture
- Citizenship
- Germany
- archives at
- Bavarian State Library
- cause of death
- heart failure
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Alois Riehl
- educated at
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- influenced by
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Gottfried Herder, Arthur Schopenhauer, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Jacob Burckhardt, Ernst Haeckel, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson, Leo Frobenius, Karl Lamprecht, Hans Vaihinger
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler
- notable work
- The Decline of the West
- place of burial
- Nordfriedhof
- topic has template
- Template:Oswald Spengler
- topic's main category
- Category:Oswald Spengler
- writing language
- German
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