1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Eucken, Rudolf Christoph
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EUCKEN, RUDOLF CHRISTOPH (1846- ), German philosopher, was born
on the 5th of January 1846 at Aurich in East Friesland. His
father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his
mother, a woman of considerable activity. He was educated at
Aurich, where one of his teachers was the philosopher Wilhelm
Reuter, whose influence was the dominating factor in the
development of his thought. Passing to the university of
Göttingen he took his degree in classical philology and ancient
history, but the bent of his mind was definitely towards the
philosophical side of theology. Subsequently he studied in
Berlin, especially under Trendelenburg, whose ethical tendencies
and historical treatment of philosophy greatly attracted him.
From 1871 to 1874 Eucken taught philosophy at B