Oswald Spengler
(1880-1936)
German historian and philosopher
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Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art and their relation to his cyclical theory of history. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 1918 and 1922, covering all of world history. Spengler's model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
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29 May 1880 Blankenburg am Harz, Germany
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8 May 1936 (aged 55) Munich, Bavaria, German Reich
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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