Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Born	(1846-01-05)5 January 1846 Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation
Died	14 September 1926(1926-09-14) (aged 80) Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Awards	Nobel Prize in Literature (1908)
Education
Education	Göttingen University (PhD, 1866) Berlin University
Academic advisors	Hermann Lotze F. A. Trendelenburg
Philosophical work
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy German idealism Philosophy of life
Institutions	University of Basel University of Jena
Main interests	Ethics
Notable ideas	Ethical activism[1]
Signature

Rudolf Christoph Eucken (/ˈɔɪkən/;^[2] German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈɔʏkn̩] ^ⓘ; 5 January 1846 – 14 September 1926^[3]) 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.^[4]