German philosopher and academic (1780-1819)

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.

Bust of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Works
• 3 Notes
• 4 References

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 nachgel*ene Schriften und Briefwechsel , edited by Tieck and Raumer (2 vols., 1826)
• K. W. F. Solger’s Vorlesungen über Aesthetik , edited by Heyse (1829)

Notes

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.