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Portrait of Friedrich Schlegel

Long 19th c. · 1772–1829

Who influenced Friedrich Schlegel?

Influences and legacy

Jena romantic whose fragments made irony and criticism a philosophy.

Friedrich Schlegel was influenced by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and went on to influence Søren Kierkegaard. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Friedrich Schlegel?

Friedrich Schlegel and his elder brother August Wilhelm were the central figures of Jena Romanticism. He studied classical literature, founded journals such as the Athenaeum and in 1808 converted to Catholicism, then moved to Austria to serve Metternich as a diplomat and journalist.

He was a pioneer of Indo-European studies and comparative linguistics and was the first to notice what became Grimm's law. His Romantic ideas inspired Coleridge and Mickiewicz, and Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann set some of his poems to music.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Friedrich Schlegel?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

Who did Friedrich Schlegel influence?

1 thinker on this map draws directly on Friedrich Schlegel.

The line of teachers behind Friedrich Schlegel

The longest documented line of influence ending at Friedrich Schlegel runs 21 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. Friedrich Schlegel

Two steps away from Friedrich Schlegel

Indirect influences

The second generation

Contemporaries of Friedrich Schlegel

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Friedrich Schlegel, with no direct line between them.

Friedrich Schlegel by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
1
Thinkers upstream
83
Thinkers downstream
25
Wikipedia languages
54 — #32 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Friedrich Schlegel

Who influenced Friedrich Schlegel?
Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
Who did Friedrich Schlegel influence?
Søren Kierkegaard.
When did Friedrich Schlegel live?
1772–1829. The map files Friedrich Schlegel under the long 19th century.
How rare is the Friedrich Schlegel card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Friedrich Schlegel in 54 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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