Johann Gottfried Herder (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
Early Life
Johann Gottfried Herder was born on August 25, 1744, in the small East Prussian town of Mohrungen. He came from a family of modest financial resources; his father worked as a teacher, organist, and church warden. Both parents were pious people, and Herder grew up influenced by the moderate Pietist ideas common in the clergy at this time, which were opposed to orthodoxy and dogma in favor of a more personal, inner-directed religious life.
Herder had two sisters, who married and remained in Mohrungen. He showed his great desire to study rather early in life....
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