Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger 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 Erwin, Vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst Philosophische Gespräche Solger's nachgelassene Schriften und Briefwechsel, edited by Tieck and Raumer K. W. F. Solger’s Vorlesungen über Aesthetik, edited by Heyse