Gottlob Ernst Schulze

Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761 to 1833) was a German philosopher, born in Heldrungen in the Electorate of Saxony and later a professor at Wittenberg, Helmstedt and Gottingen. His most influential book, Aenesidemus (1792), was a skeptical polemic against Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy, defending skepticism against the claims of the critique of reason. At Gottingen he taught Arthur Schopenhauer, advising him to concentrate on Plato and Kant, advice that strongly shaped Schopenhauer's philosophy. He was the grandfather of the biochemist Ernst Schulze and died in Gottingen in 1833.