FICHTE, JOHANN GOTTLIEB

born May 19, 1762, Rammenau, Upper Lusatia, Saxony [now in Germany] died Jan. 27, 1814, Berlin German philosopher and patriot, one of the great transcendental idealists. Additional reading Studies of Fichte's thought include Robert Adamson, Fichte (1881, reissued 1969), and his article in the Encyclopdia Britannica 11th ed. (1910); Ellen Bliss Talbot, The Fundamental Principle of Fichte's Philosophy (1906); Ren Wellek, Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and Literary Relations Between Germany, England, and the United States During the Nineteenth Century (1965); Tom Rockmore, Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition (1980); and Frederick Neuhouser, Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (1990).