| | SEP: Johann Gottfried von Herder |
 | | At this period he also began a lifelong friendship with the irrationalist philosopher Hamann. |
| | In 1764 he left Königsberg to take up a school-teaching position in Riga. |
| | There he wrote the programmatic essay How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of the People (1765); published his first major work, on the philosophy of language and literature, the Fragments on Recent German Literature (1767-8); and also an important work in aesthetics, the Critical Forests (1769). |
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