Philosopher
Max Bernhard Weinstein
Overview
Max Bernhard Weinstein (1 September 1852 in Kaunas, Vilna Governorate – 25 March 1918) was a German physicist and philosopher. He is best known as an opponent of Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and for having written a broad examination of various theological theories, including extensive discussion of pandeism.
Born into a Jewish family in Kovno (then Imperial Russia), Weinstein translated James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism into German in 1883, and taught courses on electrodynamics at the University of Berlin.
While teaching at the Institute of Physics in the University of Berlin, Weinstein associated with Max Planck, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ernst Pringsheim Sr., Wilhelm Wien, Carl A. Paalzow of the Technische Hochschule in Berlin Charlottenburg, August Kundt, Werner von Siemens, theologian Adolph von Siemens, historian Theodor Mommsen, and Germanic philologist Wilhelm Scherer.
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Philosophers who discussed Max Bernhard Weinstein
Ideas Max Bernhard Weinstein discusses
- German language
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Giordano Bruno
- Philosophy
- Monism
- Mind
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Physicist
- Pantheism
- Adolf von Harnack
- Nicholas of Cusa
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Theory of relativity
- Baruch Spinoza
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Albert Einstein
- Wilhelm Scherer
Place in the tradition
Part of Pandeism.