Johann Erich Biester

Johann Erich Biester by Ferdinand Collmann, 1795, Gleimhaus Halberstadt

Johann Erich Biester (17 November 1749, Lübeck – 20 February 1816, Berlin) was a German philosopher. With Friedrich Nicolai and Friedrich Gedike, he formed what was known as the 'Triumvirate' of late Enlightenment Berlin.

Life

From 1767 to 1771 he studied law and English literature in Göttingen and was taken on as a jurist in Lübeck.


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