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1762 – 1814Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)Died 27 January 1814, aged 51Fichte was a German philosopher and a founding figure of German idealism, building on and extending the work of Immanuel Kant. He delivered influential lectures on nationalism and education in Berlin during the Napoleonic occupation. He died of typhus, likely contracted from his wife, who had been nursing wounded soldiers.