Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger
Appearance
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (28 November 1780,
philosopher and academic. He is known as a theorist of Romanticism, and of irony
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Biography
Solger's extensive studies included attending
Wissenschaftslehre" lectures in Berlin 1804.[2] In 1811, Solger became professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin
Works
- Des Sophokles Tragödien [Sophocles' Tragedies] (2 vols., 1808; 2d ed., 1824)
- Erwin, Vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst [Erwin, or Four Dialogues on Beauty and Art] (2 vols., 1815) [A work on Hegel and Heinrich Heine.]
- Philosophische Gespräche [Philosophical Dialogues] (1817)
- Solger's nachgelassene Schriften und Briefwechsel [Posthumous writings and letters], edited by Tieck and Raumer (2 vols., 1826)
- K. W. F. Solger’s Vorlesungen über Aesthetik [Lectures in Aesthetics], edited by Heyse (1829)
Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the The American Cyclopædia.