Key references
Rudolf Eucken
1846-1926
German philosopher. He was an influential public figure in his time, but his many writings are now relatively neglected. He received the Nobel prize in literature in 1908. Max Scheler studied with Eucken, whose positions are sometime seen as providing a bridge between idealism and phenomenology.
Die Lebensanschauungen der grossen Denker: eine Entwickelungsgeschichte des Lebensproblems der Menschheit von Plato bis zur Gegenwart1890
Leipzig, Veit
Philosophie der Geschichte
1907
in: Systematische Philosophie, Leipzig-Berlin : Teubner