Arthur Schopenhauer
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in 1797
in Le Havre
to live for two years with the family of his fathers business associate, Grégoire de Blésimaire
in 1805
Heinrich Schopenhauer left the family with a significant inheritance that was split in three among Johanna and the children. Arthur Schopenhauer was entitled to control of his part when he reached the age of majority
in 1805
and earned annual interest that was more than double the salary of a university professor.
in 1805
in honor of his dead father, and because of his own doubts about being too old to start a life of a scholar.
in 1805
to " You are unbearable and burdensome, and very hard to live with; all your good qualities are overshadowed by your conceit, and made useless to the world simply because you cannot restrain your propensity to pick holes in other people."
in 1805
in Hamburg
left his mother, and lived with his friend Jean Anthime who was also studying to become a merchant
in 1807
in Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
but he also enjoyed social life among local nobility spending large amounts of money which caused concern to his frugal mother
in 1808
in Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
after writing a satirical poem about one of the lecturers. Although Arthur claimed that he left voluntarily, his mothers letter indicates that he was expelled
in 1812
in University of Berlin
but Schopenhauer quickly found many points of disagreement with his Wissenschaftslehre and he also found his lectures tedious and hard to understand
in 1812
. Schopenhauer notes and comments on Schleiermachers lectures show that Schopenhauer was becoming very critical of religion and moving towards atheism
in 1813
fearing that the city could be attacked and that he could be pressed into military service as Prussia just joined the war against France.
in 1813
in Weimar
after less than a month disgusted by the fact that his mother was now living with her supposed lover, Georg Friedrich Konrad Ludwig Müller von Gerstenbergk
in 1813
in Rudolstadt
hoping that no army would pass through the small town. He spent his time in solitude, hiking in the mountains and the Thuringian forest and writing his dissertation
on 11/1/1813
in Weimar
He became irritated by the arrival of soldiers to the town and accepted his mothers invitation to visit her
in 1815
in Dresden
young painter who made a romanticized portrait of him in which he improved some of Schopenhauers unattractive physical features
on 12/1/1818
Although the publisher accepted his manuscript, Schopenhauer made a poor impression because of his quarrelsome and fussy attitude and very poor sales of the book
