Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (28 November 1780,

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– 20 October 1819,

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) was a German

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and academic. He is known as a theorist of

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, and of

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Biography

Solger's extensive studies included attending

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's ''Darstellung meines Systems der Philosophie'' resentation of My System of Philosophylectures at the

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in 1800–01 and

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's " Wissenschaftslehre" lectures in

1804.''Tieck and Solger: The Complete Correspondence'', Berlin: Westermann Company, 1933, p. 39. In 1811, Solger became professor of philosophy at the

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Works

* ''Des Sophokles Tragödien'' 'Sophocles' Tragedies''">Sophocles.html" ;"title="'Sophocles">'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 aesthetics, in which he took issue with August Wilhelm Schlegel, and which influenced both 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)

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* 1780 births 1819 deaths Philosophers from the Kingdom of Prussia 19th-century German philosophers People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg Academic staff of European University Viadrina Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub