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24 August 1744: birth of the great polymath Johann Gottfried Herder (d. 1803), who revolutionized or laid the groundwork for numerous fields in the humanities in ways that few today realize: e.g. theology, hermeneutics, linguistics, cultural history, philosophy of history.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder/#toc

A man of the #Enlightenment & a democrat, he supported the French Revolution and is also regarded as a founder of modern cultural nationalism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder/#PoliPhil