Joseph Dietzgen Philosopher

Joseph Dietzgen (1828 – 1888) was a German socialist philosopher, Marxist and journalist. Joseph was born in Blankenberg in the Rhine Province of Prussia. He was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen (1794–1887) and mother Anna Margaretha Lückerath (1808–1881). He was, like his father, a tanner by profession; inheriting his uncle's business in Siegburg. Entirely self-educated, he developed the notion of dialectical materialism independently from Marx and Engels as an independent philosopher of socialist theory. His publications had major influences on Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution of 1917, which are rarely commented on today. Ludwig Feuerbach's works had a great influence on his early theories. He had one son, Eugene Dietzgen.

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Birth date	December 09, 1828
Birth place	Hennef (Sieg) , German Confederation
Date of death	April 15, 1888
Place of death	Chicago , United States
Era	19th-century philosophy
Main interest	Epistemology Dialectic Logic

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influenced	Karl Marx Antonie Pannekoek Vladimir Lenin
influenced by	Baruch Spinoza Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Immanuel Kant Karl Marx Ludwig Feuerbach
notable idea	Dialectical materialism