Leonard Nelson

Education

University of Göttingen.

Career

During his doctorate at Georg August University of Göttingen he was advised by Julius Baumann, and his dissertation was titled Jakob Fries and his Youngest Critics (Jakob Friedrich Fries und seine jüngsten Kritiker). He was critical of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in his work, Progress and Regress in Philosophy (Fortschritte und Rickschritte in der Philosophie). He was an insomniac and died young from pneumonia.

Achievements

• Together with Minna Specht he was the founder of Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund.

Views

He is also known for defending the idea of animal rights in his work System of Ethics (System der philosophischen Ethik und Pädagogik).