| Full name | Horst Matthai Quelle |
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| Born | 30 January 1912 Hanover, Germany |
| Died | 27 December 1999 Tijuana, Mexico |
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Horst Matthai Quelle (30 January 1912 – 27 December 1999) was a Spanish language German philosopher.
Quelle was born in Hanover, Germany in 1912.
In 1938, at the beginning of the German economic crisis and the rise of Nazism and fascism in Europe, Quelle moved to Mexico. There, he began studying philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico where he took classes with writer Carlos Monsivais and philosophers Leopoldo Zea and Emilio Uranga. Quelle earned his undergraduate degree, master's and doctorate in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he returned as a professor of philosophy in the 1980s. He also taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana and since 1986, the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
As a philosopher, Quelle was influenced by G. W. F. Hegel, Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and their approaches to solipsism and anarchy.
He died in Tijuana, Mexico on 27 December, 1999.