Johann Georg Heinrich Feder

Feder was born on 15 May 1740 in the village of Schornweisach (now a part of Uehlfeld, Bavaria) in the Principality of Bayreuth, the son of Martin Heinrich Feder († 1749), the village pastor.

His writings were widely read at the time due to their clear and tasteful mode of presentation.

Feder decisively countered Immanuel Kant's idealism.

He gained notoriety through his abbreviation of Christian Garve's review of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

As philosopher Feder belonged to the better representatives of the eclectics tending towards the Leibniz–Wolff School.