1809 in philosophy
Events Wilhelm von Humboldt appointed head of the Department for Culture and Public Education in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior.
Publications Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Philosophie Zoologique Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom Johann Michael Sailer's On Education - for Educators []
Births January 4 - Louis Braille (died 1852) February 12 - Charles Darwin (died 1882) August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (died 1894) September 6 - Bruno Bauer (died 1882)
Deaths June 8 - Thomas Paine (born 1737)
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