Friedrich Theodor von Vischer

Friedrich Theodor von Vischer (born June 30, 1807, Ludwigsburg, Württemberg [Germany]—died Sept. 14, 1887, Gmunden, Austria) was a German literary critic and aesthetician known for his efforts to create a theoretical basis for literary realism. Vischer’s theories of aesthetics, based on ideas of G.W.F. Hegel, began to develop while he was teaching at the University of Tübingen, where he had studied. He became a professor at Tübingen in 1844 but was suspended for two years...