Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) was a German poet, critic, and philosopher.
Herder's critical writings indicated his intuitive rather than reasoning trend of thought. He collected folk songs and poetry of all nations, published as Summen der Volker in Liedern / Voices of the People in Song (1778), and in the Ideen zur Philosophic der Geschichte der Menschheit / Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (1784-1791) he outlined the stages of human cultural development.
He gave considerable impulse to the Romantic Sturm und Drang / Storm and Stress movement in German literature.
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Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, poet and literary critic.