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Languages
German
Spouse
Irene Eucken
Children
1 child: Walter Eucken
Education
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Göttingen
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♑ Capricorn
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马 Horse
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Rudolf Christoph Eucken: (1846-1926) German philosopher.
Born in Aurich (died at age 80).
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
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Biography
Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life", after he had been nominated by a member of the Swedish Academy.
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