CHAPTER XI. SCHELLING. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph (von) Schelling was born January 27, 1775, at Leonberg (in Wiirtcmberg), and died August 20, 1854, at the baths of Ragatz (in Switzer. land). In 1790-95 he attended the seminary at Tubingen, in company with Holderlin and Hegel, who were five years older than himself ; at seventeen he published a dis- sertation on the Fall of Man, and a year later an essay on Religious Myths ; and was called in 1798 from Leipsic — where, after several treatises* in explanation of the Science of Knowledge, he had issued, in 1797, the Ideas for a Phil- osophy of Nature — to Jena. In the latter place he became acquainted with his future wife, Carolinc,t nie Michaelis (1763-1809), widow of Bohmer and at this time the brilliant wife of August Wilhelm Schlegel. From 1803 to 1806 he served as professor in Wiirzburg ; then followed two residences of fourteen years each in Munich, separated by seven years in Erlangen : 1806-20 as Member of the Acad- emy of Sciences and General Secretary of the Academy of the Plastic Arts (he received this latter position after delivering on the king's birthday his celebrated address on "The Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature," 1807); and 1827-41 as professor in the newly established university, and President of the Academy of Sciences. In 1812 Schell- ing married his second wife, Pauline Gotter. Besides vari- ous journals % and the works to be noticed later, two polemic
- On the Possibility of a Form of Philosophy in General, On the Ego as
Principle of Philosophy, both in 1795 ; Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism, 1796 ; Essays in Explanation of the Science of Knowledge, 1797. f Karoline, Letters, edited by G. Waitz, 1871. X Kritisches Journal der Philosophie (with Hegel), 1802; Zeitschrift fur spekulative Physik, 1800 (continued as Neue Zeitschrift fiir spekttlative Physik); Jahrbucher der Medizin als Wissenschaft (with Marcus), 1806-0'* • Allgtmnne Zeitschrift von Deutschen fur Deutsche^ 1813. 445
