In 1869 Vischer was made senior teacher at Stuttgart Polytechnical School in the newly founded German Literature and Aesthetics teaching and research institute.
| 6/30/1807 |
Born in Ludwigsburg as the son of a vicar |
| 1814 |
Attends the Illustre Grammar School in Stuttgart (now Eberhard Ludwig Grammar School) |
| 1821 |
Attends Monastery School in Blaubeuren |
| 1825 |
Studies Theology at the Tübingen Seminary |
| 1830 |
Made curate in Horrheim near Vaihingen |
| 1831 |
Seminary assistant in Heilbronn |
| 1833 |
Seminary assistant in Tübingen |
| 1836 |
Completes post-doctoral thesis entitled "On the sublime and the ridiculous" |
| 1837 |
Associate Professor of German Literature and Aesthetics at Tübingen University |
| 1843 |
Educational travels through Greece and Italy |
| 1844 - 1855 |
Marriage to Thekla Heinzel |
| 1844 |
Full Professor at Tübingen University |
| 1844 - 1846 |
Suspended for his overly outspoken inaugural speech (against the Church and Pietism) on the occasion of his becoming a Full Professor |
| 1846 - 1857 |
Six-volume work on the fundaments of aesthetics: "Aesthetics or the science of beauty" |
| 1847 |
Son Robert is born |
| 1847 |
Returns to Tübingen University |
| 1848 |
Member of parliament for the Left-Wing Democrats in the Frankfurt National Assembly (St. Paul's Church), represents the constituency of Reutlingen/Urach in parliament |
| 1855 |
Professor at Zurich Polytechnic |
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Friendships with Eduard Mörike (holds a speech on the occasion of his death), Gottfried Keller and David Friedrich Strauß, acquaintances with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Ludwig Uhland and Friedrich Hölderlin |
| 1862 |
Writes a parody of Goethe's "Faust" under the pseudonym of "Deutobold Symbolicetti Allegoriovitch Mystificinsky" entitled "Faust – the third part of the tragedy" |
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Works as an influential and critical publisher, publishes press articles on political, artistic, philosophical, theological and aesthetic issues |
| 1869 - 1877 |
Professor of German Literature and Aesthetics at Stuttgart Polytechnical School |
| 1873 |
"A critique of my aesthetics" – self-criticism directed at his own major work, avoids criticism by others |
| 9/14/1887 |
Dies in Gmunden |
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