Johannes Nikolaus Tetens

Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736 to 1807) was a German-Danish philosopher, statistician and scientist, born in the Danish Duchy of Schleswig. He studied mathematics and physics at Rostock and Copenhagen, taught philosophy and physics at Butzow, and in 1776 became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kiel. After reading David Hume he popularized his work throughout the German-speaking world, and he is thought to have introduced Immanuel Kant to phenomenalistic thought. His major work, the Philosophical Essays on Human Nature and its Development (1777), led some to call him the German Locke, and he is considered to have influenced Kant.