Timeline Sunday 18 December 1803

Events on Sunday 18 December 1803 1

• 1744 – 1803 Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Died 18 December 1803, aged 59 Johann Gottfried Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, and critic whose ideas on language, culture, and nationhood shaped Romanticism and later nationalist thought across Europe. He argued that each people possessed its own distinct cultural spirit, or Volksgeist. He died in Weimar, where he had worked alongside Goethe.