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Breslau until 1832, when he accepted an invitation to Berlin. Steffens was one of the so-called Philosophers of Nature, a friend and adherent of Schelling and See also:

SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST (1768-1834)

Schleiermacher. More than either of these two thinkers he was acquainted with the discoveries of See also:

MODERN

modern science, and was thus enabled to correct or modify the highly imaginative speculations of Schelling. He held that, throughout the'See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of nature and intellectual See also:

LIFE

life, the mainprinciple is Individualization. As organisms rise higher in the See also:

scale of development, the sharper and more distinct become their outlines, the more definite their individualities. This principle he endeavoured to deduce from his knowledge of See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology, in contrast to Lorenz See also:

OKEN, LORENZ (1779-1851)

Oken, who See also:

DEVELOPED

developed the same theory on biological grounds.

The influence of his views was considerable. Not only did Schelling and Schleiermacher modify their theories in deference to his scientific deductions, but the intellectual life of his contemporaries was considerably affected. His lectures in Copenhagen in 1802 were attended by many leading Danish thinkers, such as Oehlenschlager and See also:

GRUNDTVIG, NIKOLAI FREDERIK SEVERIN (1783–1872)

Grundtvig. Schleiermacher was so much struck by their excellence that he endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to obtain for Steffens a See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair in the new Berlin University in 1804, in See also:

order that his own ethical teachings should be supported in the scientific See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department. His See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief scientific and philosophical See also:

WORKS

works are: Beitrage zur innern Naturgeschichte der Erde Mot); Grsndzuge der See also:

PHILES, MANUEL (c. 1275–1345)

philes. Naturwissenschaft (1806) ; Anthropologie (1824). He wrote also Ueber See also:

die Idee der Universitaten (1835), and Ueber geheime Verbindungen auf Universitaten (1835); works on religious subjects, Karikaturen See also:

des Heiligsten (1819-1821) ; Wie ich wieder Lutheraner wurde and was mir das Luthertum ist (1831) ; Von der falschen Theo- See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild dent wahren Glaubern (new ed., 1831); poetical works, Die Familien Walseth and See also:

LEITH

Leith (1827); Die vier Norweger (1828) ; See also:

Malcolm (1831), collected in 1837 under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Novellen. During the last five years of his life he wrote an autobiography, Was ich erlebte, and after his See also:

DEATH

death was published Nachgelassene Schriften (1846). See Tietzen, Zur Erinnerung an Steffens; Petersen, Henrik Steffens (Ger. trans., 1884) ; Dilthey, Leben Schleiermachers.

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