Wilhelm Gottlieb, a learned philosopher of the school of Kant in Germany, was the son of a clergyman, and was born at Brembach near Erfurt on the 7th December 1761. After passing through the public school and the university of his native town, he removed to the university of Jena in 1781, where he gave himself wholly up to philosophy. At the outset of his career he was a decided opponent of the philosophy which he afterwards saw reason to embrace. In 1791 he published a work on the Doctrines and Opinions of the Socratics on the Immortality of the Soul (Lehren und Meinungen der Sokratiker über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele); in 1792-95 he published in 4 vols. his System der Platonischen Philosophie. Tenennmann's Geschichte der Philosophie, of which 11 volumes were completed at the time of his death (1798-1819), will afterwards remain as his surest passport to fame. The abridgment of this work (1812) has been translated into French by V. Cousin (1839), and into English by Johnstone, revised by J. R. Morrell in 1852. He likewise translated Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, and Locke's Essay into German. In 1798 he was made extraordinary professor at Jena, and in 1804 he was removed to be professor of philosophy at Marburg. In 1816 he was made librarian to the university, and he died on the 30th September 1819.