Christian Wolff, Freiherr von ( 1679 - 1754 )

Birth: Breslau, Germany (24 January 1679) Death: Halle/Saale, Germany (09 April 1754) Profession: Author, mathematical and philosophical Research field: Mathematics; Philosophy Education: Jena Career: Taught mathematics in Leipzig and Giessen; Professor of Mathematics at Halle (1707), but became increasingly interested in philosophy, which he saw as a superior science to mathematics and history; banished by King Frederick William I of Prussia and fled to Marburg (1723); summoned back by King Frederick II, who had read a French translation of his works, and received a hero's welcome (1740) Memberships: Academie Royale des Sciences From Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy: 'Christian Wolff (1679–1754), also known as Christian von Wolfius, was a Rationalist philosopher of the German Enlightenment.