Schelling

Schelling, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON, was born in 1775. He completed his education at Tubingen, where he began his friendship with Hegel. As early as 1793 he came under the influence of Kant's metaphysics as modified by Fichte, and wrote two treatises which commended him to the latter teacher, and in 1798 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Jena. He now developed views somewhat opposed to those of his patron, and these he embodied in the Natur-philosopkie and the Transcendental-Idealismus. In 1803 he left Jena, having married, by amicable anangement, the divorced wife of A. W. Schlegel, and, after a brief residence at Wurzburg, was called by the King of Bavaria to a post in the Munich Academy, being ultimately promoted to a professorship in the New University (1827). In 1841, at the invitation of the King of Prussia, he went to Berlin as a supporter of orthodoxy. In later life his philosophy developed in the direction of mysticism. He died in 1854.