DILTHEY, WILHELM ) , German philosopher, was born on Nov. 19, 1833, at Biebrich and died on Oct. 1, 1911, at Seis, near Bolzano. He was successively professor in Basle (1866), in Kiel (1868), in Bresiau (1871), and in 1882 succeeded Lotze in Berlin. As a supporter of positive Idealism, Dilthey re gards the external world as a representation arising out of pure experience, will as well as thought being a factor of know ing and of self-consciousness. His empirical tendency also appears in his historical approach to philosophy. His chief writ ings are: Leben Schleiermachers (187o); Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften (1883); Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung (19o5); Die Jugendgeschichte Hegels (19o5), Systematische Philosophie 0907); Der Aufbau der geschichtlichen Methode in den Geisteswissenschaften (19io); Weltanschauung u. Analyse des Menschen seit Renaissance und Reformation, 2 VO1S. (1921).
See E. Spranger ; Wilhelm Dilthey (1912).