Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger

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

After extensive studies and a varied career, in 1811 he became professor of philosophy at Berlin.

Works

• a translation of Sophocles (1808; 2d ed., 1824)
• Erwin, Vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst (2 vols., 1815) A work on aesthetics, in which he took issue with August Wilhelm Schlegel, and which influenced both Hegel and Heinrich Heine.
• Philosophische Gespräche (1817)
• posthumous writings and letters, edited by Tieck and Raumer (2 vols., 1826)
• lectures in æsthetics, edited by Heyse (1829)

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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.