VISCHER, 'FRIEDRICH THEODOR VON ( 1807-87 ) . A German critic, born at Lndwigs burg, Wurttemberg. Ile was educated at TO bingen, after which he was for a year vicar of the country church of llorrheim, near Vaihingen. He then spent the years 1832 and 1833 in developing his :esthetic taste in the art centres of Germany and Austria. lle was successively privat•docent (1836-37) and profesAor extraordinary ( 1837-44) in the rniverstty of Tilbingen, and in 1844 was appointed professor of ;esthetics. The too inde pendent tone of his inaugural lecture, how ever, caused his suspension for two years. In 1848 lie was elected to the National As. sombly of Frankfort, where lie voted with the Left. In 1S55 lie was called to the polytechnic institute of Zurich, and in 1866 to that of Stuttgart. He resumed at the same time the professorship of :esthetics and literature at Tubingen, but front 1869 taught only at Stuttgart. As a literary critic and stu
dent of :esthetics, Vischer was one of the most distinguished members of the Hegelian school. Among his numerous and valuable publieations are Kritische Gauge (1844; new series, 1861-73) ; esthetik oder Irissenschaft des Schonen (1847 58) ; Fau.st, der Tragialie driller Tell (1862; 4th ed. 1889, a satire on the second part of the tragedy); Epigranime aus Baden-Baden (1867) ; Der dentsche Krieg 1870-71 (1874) ; Go' //JCS Feast: near Bcitriige zur Kritik des Oedichts (1875) ; Anal. Liner (1878; novel, 7th ed., 1896) ; Mode um! eynicismus (1878; 3d ed. 1887); rtlics mid Nears ( 1881-82; new series 1889) ; Lyrische Gauge (1882; 2d ed. 1889); and Allotria (1892). Consult the monographs by Giinthert (Stuttgart, 1838) and Ziegler (ib., 1893).