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.
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.]
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)
Notes
^Walter Jaeschke, Helmut Holzhey (eds.), Transzendentalphilosophie und Spekulation: Der Streit um die Gestalt einer Ersten Philosophie (1799-1807), Meiner Verlag, 2013, p. 168.
^Tieck and Solger: The Complete Correspondence, Berlin: Westermann Company, 1933, p. 39.