HENRIK See also:

• HENRIK STEFFENS (1773-1845)

STEFFENS (1773-1845)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philosopher, scientist and poet, of See also:

• NORWEGIAN

Norwegian extraction, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 2nd of May 1773 at See also:

• STAVANGER

Stavanger, and died in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin on the 13th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1845 . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fourteen he went with his. parents to See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, where he studied See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology and natural See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . In 1796 he lectured at See also:

• KIEL

Kiel, and a See also:

• YEAR

year later went to See also:

• JENA

Jena to study the natural See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy of See also:

• SCHELLING, FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON (1775-1854)
• SCHELLING, KAROLINE (1763-1809)

Schelling . He went to See also:

• FREIBERG, or FREYBERG

Freiberg in 'Soo, and there came under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• WERNER, ABRAHAM GOTTLOB (1750-1817)
• WERNER, ANTON ALEXANDER VON (1843– )
• WERNER, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG ZACHARIAS (1768–1823)

Werner . After two years he returned to Copenhagen, but his lectures excited' so much disapproval that he took a See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor= See also:

• SHIP

ship at See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle in 1804 . During the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of Liberation he served as a volunteer in the cause of freedom, and was See also:

• PRESENT

present at the See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . From 1811 he was professor of physics at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau until 1832, when he accepted an invitation to Berlin . See also:

• STEFFENS, HENRIK (1773-1845)

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
• SCALE (1) A

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
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

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
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

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

• DES

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
• MALCOLM, SIR JOHN (1769-1833)

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 .