Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . acter. The son inherited his fatherstaste for books, his mothers distaste ofmysticism. Being designee^ for the church,he was sent in his thirteenth year to anevangelical seminary at Blaubeuren near Ulm, to study theology. Two of his teachers there, Professors Kernand F. C. Baur, were to have a deep influence upon his life. Therealso he met Christian Marklin, a student whose biography he wasafterwards to write. Four years later, in 1825, he entered the Uni-versity of Tiibingen; but finding in the curriculum little nourish-ment, he sou
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . acter. The son inherited his fatherstaste for books, his mothers distaste ofmysticism. Being designee^ for the church,he was sent in his thirteenth year to anevangelical seminary at Blaubeuren near Ulm, to study theology. Two of his teachers there, Professors Kernand F. C. Baur, were to have a deep influence upon his life. Therealso he met Christian Marklin, a student whose biography he wasafterwards to write. Four years later, in 1825, he entered the Uni-versity of Tiibingen; but finding in the curriculum little nourish-ment, he sought satisfaction for his needs in Schellings pantheisticphilosophy, and in the writings of the romanticists, Jacob Bohme,and others. In 1826 Professors Baur and Kern came to the University, resum-ing the intellectual oversight of their former pupils, Strauss andMarklin. Baur introduced Strauss to the works of Schleiermacher,whose mystical conception of religion, as having its roots in theemotional life, was lor a time attractive to the future author of the. Strauss 14108 DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS ^ Leben Jesii,^ drawing him away from the influence of the rationalphilosophy of Kant and the pantheism of Schelling. But he was notto remain long a disciple of Schleiermacher. His own temperament,as well as outside forces, was drawing him to the consideration ofthe overwhelming Hegelian philosophy. In the last year at Tiibingenhe read Hegels ^ Phanomenologie,^ — strong meat even for a Ger-man youth to digest. Hegel, in direct opposition to Schleiermacher,sought the roots of religion in thought, not feeling: his conception ofBegriff and Vorstellung, of Notion and Representation, the Absolute,and the finite presentation of the Absolute, was to exert a tremendousinfluence upon Strauss; leading him at last to the inquiry embodiedin the ^ Life of Jesus, ^ how much of dogmatic religion is but theshadowing forth, the vorstellung, of great underlying truths. He was not at once, however, to ap
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