Friedrich Theodor von Vischer (1807–87)

German writer on philosophy of art. Professor extraordinarius, Tübinger Stifft (Tübingen Foundation), 1837; professor, 1844. Professor, literary history, Zürich, 1855; Tübingen, 1866–8. Lecturer, Stuttgart Polytechnikum, 1867–77. Author of Aesthetik, oder, Wissenschaft des Schönen (1846–57). Raised to the aristocracy, 1870.