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Dictionary definition: Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
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Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (1775–1854)
The principal philosopher of German
Romanticism
. Schelling was born in Leonberg, and educated at Tübingen, where he was a contemporary of
Hegel
and the poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Schelling became professor at Jena in 1798, and for some years collaborated with
Fichte
. In 1803 he married Caroline, the divorced wife of August Schlegel, to whose daughter (who died, possibly because of Schelling's attempts at medicine) he had previously been informally engaged. In keeping with the spirit of Romanticism Schelling's early work, particularly the
System des transzendentalen Idealismus
(1800), stresses force, self-consciousness, ...