Editing Friedrich Theodor Vischer (section)

==Biography==
Born at [[Ludwigsburg]] as the son of a clergyman, Vischer was educated at [[Tübinger Stift]], and began life in his father's profession. He became {{lang|de|[[Privatdozent]]}} in [[aesthetics]] and German literature at his old university in 1835, was advanced to extraordinary professor two years later, and was appointed to full professor in 1844. Due to his outspoken inaugural address he was suspended for two years by the [[Württemberg]] government. In this enforced leisure he wrote the first two volumes of his ''Aesthetik, oder Wissenschaft des Schönen'' (1846), the fourth and last volume of which did not appear till 1857.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Vischer threw himself heartily into the great German political movement of 1848-49, and shared the disappointment of patriotic [[democracy|democrat]]s at its failure. In 1855 he became professor at [[Zürich]]. In 1866, his fame being now established, he was invited back to Germany with a professorship at [[university of Tübingen|Tübingen]] combined with a post at the Polytechnikum of [[Stuttgart]]. He died at [[Gmunden]] on 14 September 1887.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}