Literature: 1908

Eucken, Rudolf pronounced OY kehn, (1846-1926), a German philosopher, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1908 though he wrote no works of literature. Eucken wrote many treatises on philosophy in which he strongly criticized naturalistic philosophy and advocated a philosophy of ethical activism.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken was born in Aurich, Germany. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Basel in Switzerland from 1871 to 1874 and professor of philosophy at the University of Jena in Germany from 1874 to 1920.