Abstract
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut was born in 1772 in Hameln in Sassonia, of French Huguenot descent, his maternal grandfather was the jurist Christian Ulrich Grupen. He entered the University of Göttingen as a student of Jurisprudence, then he went to Königsberg, where he studied under Immanuel Kant. He became research doctor in 1796, from 1801 he was University Professor first in Kiel, then in Jena, where he met Goethe and Schiller, finally in Heidelberg (from 1806), where he made friends with Hegel. Here he died in 1840. He was also finely interested in musicology with a particular predilection for ancient music, as we can see in his Űber Reinheit der Tonkunst (1825).
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