Stachelschweine arthur schopenhauer biography

  Arthur Schopenhauer was born on February 22 1788 in Danzig (now - Gdansk, Poland) which was then a "Free City" largely controlled by Germanic trading interests and functioning within the constitutional arrangements of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonmwealth.

In the late eighteenth century Poland featured some serious social and political turmoils which contributed to several partitions of that ancient kingdom.
When Prussia took Danzig over in 1793 as a result of the so-called Second Partitition of Poland, his father, a successful and liberal-minded merchant, moved the family to Hamburg.

  In 1809 Schopenhauer enrolled at the University of Göttingen where he studied medicine for two years but later studied philosophy at the University of Berlin. He completed his doctorate in philosophy at Jena in 1813.

   Following on from this period of formal education he relied on his inherited income to finance a period of private contempl