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Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (28 November 1780, Schwedt – 20 October 1819, Berlin) was a German philosopher and academic. He is known as a theorist of Romanticism, and of irony.

Biography

Solger's extensive studies included attending Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's Darstellung meines Systems der Philosophie lectures at the University of Jena in 1800–01 and Johann Gottlieb Fichte's "Wissenschaftslehre" lectures in Berlin 1804. In 1811, Solger became professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin

Works

• Des Sophokles Tragödien (2 vols., 1808; 2d ed., 1824)
• Erwin, Vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst (2 vols., 1815)
• Philosophische Gespräche (1817)
• Solger's nachgelassene Schriften und Briefwechsel , edited by Tieck and Raumer (2 vols., 1826)
• K. W. F. Solger’s Vorlesungen über Aesthetik , edited by Heyse (1829)

Notes

1. Walter Jaeschke, Helmut Holzhey (eds.), Transzendentalphilosophie und Spekulation: Der Streit um die Gestalt einer Ersten Philosophie (1799-1807), Meiner Verlag, 2013, p. 168.
2. Tieck and Solger: The Complete Correspondence, Berlin: Westermann Company, 1933, p. 39.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Solger, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand" . The American Cyclopædia.

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