德國 德意志帝國
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1828年十月28日～
1888年四月15日)
Joseph Dietzgen約瑟夫·狄慈根（Joseph Dietzgen，1828年－1888年），德國社會主義著作傢和哲學家，同時是一名製革工人。曾經僑居在美國和俄國。他十分積極地參加工人運動，通過自學所得出的結論與馬剋思、恩格斯的辯證唯物主義非常相近。
主要著作有《一個社會主義者在認識論領域中的漫遊》、《哲學的成就》等。馬剋思、恩格斯對其有很高的評價。他的思想對馬剋思、列寧和安東尼·潘涅庫剋有一定影響。
Peter Josef Dietzgen (October 28, 1828 – April 15, 1888) was a German socialist philosopher, Marxist and journalist. Joseph was born in Blankenberg in the Rhine Province of Prussia. He was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen (1794–1887) and mother Anna Margaretha Lückerath (1808–1881). He was, like his father, a tanner by profession; inheriting his uncle's business in Siegburg. Entirely self-educated, he developed the notion of dialectical materialism independently from Marx and Engels as an independent philosopher of socialist theory. His publications had major influences on Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution of 1917, which are rarely commented on today. Ludwig Feuerbach's works had a great influence on his early theories. He had one son, Eugene Dietzgen.