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Gottlob Frege
1848–1925
A quiet, exacting thinker who helped reshape logic and the philosophy of language, his work later became central to analytic philosophy. Though little celebrated in his own lifetime, he is now widely seen as one of the key figures behind modern logic.
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Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik
by Gottlob Frege
About the author
Born in Wismar in 1848, Gottlob Frege studied mathematics and spent nearly his whole academic career at the University of Jena, where he later became a professor. Trained as a mathematician, he brought unusual precision to big philosophical questions about meaning, logic, and number.
His most influential works include Begriffsschrift (1879), often described as a breakthrough in formal logic, and The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884). In them, he argued that arithmetic could be grounded in logic and developed ideas about sense, reference, and language that went on to shape much of twentieth-century philosophy.
Frege died in 1925, long before his importance was fully recognized. Today he is remembered as a foundational figure in modern logic and as a major influence on the philosophy of mathematics, language, and analytic philosophy more broadly.