Johann Joachim Lange

Johann Joachim Lange (1670, Gardelegen – 1744, Halle) was a German theologian and philosopher.

Lange was educated in Leipzig, Erfurt and Halle. He was influenced by Christian Thomasius and the pietist August Hermann Francke. He became a professor of theology at Halle in 1709, and opposed the philosophy of Christian Wolff.[1]

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Family

His son, Samuel Gotthold Lange, was a noted poet.

References

  1. ^ Fonnesu, Luca (2006), "Lange, Johann Joachim", in Haakonssen, Knud, The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1176