Afrikan Spir

Afrikan Spir
Photograph of Afrikan Spir taken by Fred Boissonnas c.1887 (Fonds Fred Boissonnas, Bibliothèque de Genève)
Born10 November 1837
Kirovo, Ukraine
(past Elizabethgrad, Russian Empire)
Died26 March 1890(1890-03-26) (aged 52)
Geneva, Switzerland
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Main interests

Afrikan Alexandrovich Spir, also spelled African Spir (1837–1890), was a Ukrainian philosopher of German-Greek descent who wrote primarily in German, but also French.

His book Denken und Wirklichkeit (Thought and Reality, 1873) had a significant influence on several eminent philosophers, scholars and writers such as Hans Vaihinger, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Leo Tolstoy and Rudolf Steiner.


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