Scheffer
ARY, a French painter, son of Johann Baptist (a German historical painter); born in Dordrecht, Holland, Feb. 12, 1795; studied under Guérin in Paris, and began his artistic career a painter of genre pictures. Under as a the influence of the romanticism of the early 19th century he produced numerous pieces illustrative of Goethe's, Byron's, and Dante's works, such as "Margaret at the Well," "Faust in His Study," and "Dante and Beatrice in Heaven." Shortly after 1835 he turned to religious subjects, and painted "Christus Remunerator," "Christus Consolator," "The Temptation of Christ," "St. Augustine and Monica," etc. His best portraits were of the Duchess de Broglie, Prince Talleyrand, Queen Amélie, Liszt, La Fayette, Béranger, and Lamartine. He died in Argenteuil, near Paris, June 15, 1858. SCHELDT (skelt; Dutch, Schelde shel'-duh), one of the most important rivers of Belgium and the Netherlands.
It rises in the French department of the Aisne; flows circuitously through Belgium; reaches Ghent, where it receives the Lys; at Antwerp attains a breadth SCHERER of philosophy at that university in 1798.
In 1803 he was transferred to Wurzburg; and in 1807 to Munich, where he remained till 1841, when he accepted a chair at Berlin. This chair he soon relinquished, and the last years of his life were spent in comparative seclusion.
Schelling's place in the great series of Germ German ph philosophers is determined to be between Fichte and Hegel. His metaphysical theory is generally known by the name of the "System of Identity."
He died in Ragatz, Switzerland, Aug. 20, 1854.