Michael Gottlieb Birckner
Danish philosopher
Died when: 42 years 102 days (507 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Michael Gottlieb Birckner (21 August 1756 – 1 December 1798) was a Danish priest and philosopher.Birckner especially explored the subject of Freedom of Speech.
The American historian H.Arnold Barton has characterised Birckner, along with Niels Ditlev Riegels, as being "one of the most original thinkers" of the radical group of authors in Denmark in this period.
The Danish jurist Peter Germer in his book The Nature of Freedom of Speech (Ytringsfrihedens Væsen, 1973) shows that Birckners ideas was akin to ideas that Scottish-American philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn proposed in his Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government (1948).
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