Lange, Friedrich Albert (1828–75)

1. Life

Lange was born at Wald and died near Zurich. He was educated at the University of Bonn and later became a university instructor there in 1851. In 1870, he was appointed professor of inductive logic at Zurich. Accepting a professorship at Marburg in 1873, Lange established an influential Neo-Kantian orientation there. By 1861 he became actively involved in politics, working for constitutional reform along democratic socialist lines.