Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, …

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant. Fichte is often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, in the region of Württemberg in southwestern Germany. Together with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Hegel is considered one of the representatives of German idealism. Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers (Bauer, Marx, Bradley, Sartre, Küng), and his detractors (Schelling, Kierkegaard, …

Dieter Henrich (born January 5, 1927 in Marburg, Germany) is a German philosopher. Henrich studied philosophy between 1946 and 1950 at Marburg, Frankfurt and Heidelberg. A professor at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, he has also been a visiting professor to universities in the United States, such as Harvard and Columbia. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German Idealism, Henrich is particularly known for the influence of Kant and Fichte in his work.

Frederick C. Beiser (b. November 27, 1949), one of the leading scholars of German Idealism, is a Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. Prior to joining Syracuse, he was a member of the faculty at Indiana University, Bloomington where he received a 1999-2000 NEH Faculty Fellowship. He has also taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Yale University. Beiser earned his DPhil.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, later "von Schelling", was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German Idealism, situating him between Fichte, his mentor prior to 1800, and Hegel, his former school roommate and erstwhile friend. Interpreting Schelling's philosophy is often difficult because of its ever-changing nature. Some scholars characterize him as a protean thinker who, although brilliant, …

Manfred Frank (born March 22, 1945) is a German philosopher, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Tubingen. His prolific work focuses on German idealism, romanticism, and the concepts of subjectivity and self-consciousness. He has also written at length on analytic philosophy and recent French philosophy. Frank was born in Elberfeld, Germany, and studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg under teachers such as Hans Georg Gadamer, Karl Lowith, …

Frederick Neuhouser is the Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and a Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. Before joining Columbia as a faculty member, Neuhouser taught at Harvard University, University of California, San Diego and Cornell University. Neuhouser graduated from Wabash College (Crawfordsville, IN), "summa cum laude", and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Richard Kroner (1884 - 1974) was a German neo-Hegelian philosopher, known for his "Von Kant bis Hegel" (1921/4), a classic history of German idealism written from the neo-Hegelian point of view. He was a Christian, from a Jewish background. He is known for his formulation of Hegel as 'the Protestant Aquinas'. His Jewish ancestry led him to be 'suspended' (dismissed) under Nazi legislation in 1934, from his university position at Kiel.

Vladimir Zeman is a Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He specializes in German Idealism (Kant and neo-Kantianism in particular), 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and Philosophy of Science.

Wang Guowei, courtesy name Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer and poet. A versatile and original scholar, he made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy, philology, vernacular literature and literary theory. A native of Haining, Zhejiang, he went to Shanghai to work as a proofreader for a newspaper, after failing to pass the Imperial Examination in his hometown, at the age of 22.

Adolf Schlatter was an Evangelical theologian and professor specialising in the New Testament and systematics at Greifswald, Berlin and Tübingen. Schlatter, born in St. Gallen to a pietistic preacher, studied philosophy and theology in Basel and Tübingen between 1871 and 1875, gaining his post-doctoral teaching qualification ("Habilitation") in 1880. In 1888, he became a lecturer at the University of Berne.

Friedrich Brunstäd was a German Protestant systematic theologian and philosopher. He attempted a renewal of German idealism, from the point of view of Lutheranism.

Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland (9 June, 1854, Groningen - 11 February, 1922, Leiden), also known as G.J.P.J. Bolland, was a Dutch autodidact (self-taught man), linguist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and lecturer. An excellent orator, he gave extremely well-attended public lectures in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Delft, Groningen, Nijmegen and even in Belgium.