Stories by Gabriel Finkelstein

Gabriel Finkelstein is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver and the author of Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany.

OpinionNovember 10, 2019

The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century

Emil du Bois-Reymond proclaimed the mystery of consciousness, championed the theory of natural selection and revolutionized the study of the nervous system. Today he is all but forgotten

Gabriel Finkelstein