In 1866 Vischer returned as a professor from Switzerland to Tübingen and also took on additional teaching duties in Stuttgart. However, the tiny university town seemed too claustrophobic to him after having spent 11 years in the "great wide world" in Zurich, and, after a wearying struggle he succeeded in having a Chair for Aesthetics and German Literature founded at Stuttgart Polytechnic in 1869. Aesthetics in Stuttgart had finally been born.
Yet over many years he was obsessed by the idea of moving the university from the petit bourgeois setting of Tübingen to the big capital city of Stuttgart. He even devoted a speech held on the occasion of the king's birthday to this topic – clearly to no avail.
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