{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 33/06_arthur_schopenhauer/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This was Arthur Schopenhauer's situation in April 1805, when his father's life ended suddenly when he fell from a loft. Whether the man, who was suffering from memory loss in his final weeks, sought 'death' himself or found it by chance is still unclear today. The son's gloomy mood was heightened by this event to such an extent that it was little short of true melancholy. The mother moved to Weimar with her daughter in 1806, after the business had been liquidated. She thirsted for the intellectual stimuli of this city of art. Arthur's striving for liberation from torturous circumstances now met with no external resistance. He was his own master. His mother exercised no coercion. Nevertheless, there were reasons that prevented him from throwing off the hated shackles immediately after his father's death. He loved his father dearly. It was contrary to his feelings to take a step that the deceased would never have approved of. Also, the overwhelming pain of the sudden loss had so paralyzed his energy that he could not make a quick decision. To all this was added the fact that he believed himself too old to be able to undertake the preliminary studies necessary for the scholarly profession. His ever-increasing aversion to the commercial profession and the belief that he was wasting his life's energies in vain filled his letters to his mother in Weimar with miserable complaints, so that she considered it her duty to ask her friend, the famous art writer Fernow, for advice on what to do in the interests of her son's future happiness. Fernow wrote to her friend with his opinion. He considered the age of eighteen to be no obstacle to devoting oneself to the sciences; indeed, he claimed that it was at this happy age that \"memory and judgment unite in the maturing power of the mind, so that what is undertaken with firm resolution can be carried out more easily and quickly, and knowledge can be acquired sooner than in an earlier or later period of life\". Schopenhauer, to whom his mother sent Fernow's letter, was so shocked by its contents that he burst into tears after reading it. Fernow's lines brought about what was otherwise not in his nature: to make a decision quickly. The time from the spring of 1807 to the fall of 1809 was enough for Schopenhauer to acquire the knowledge he needed to attend university. He lived in Gotha until the beginning of 1808, where Döring taught him Latin and Jacobs German. He spent the rest of his time in Weimar, where Fernow introduced him to Italian literature. In addition to the old languages, in which the philologist Passow and the grammar school director Lenz were his teachers, he studied mathematics and history. On October 9, he entered the University of Göttingen to study medicine. A year later, he swapped medicine for philosophy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Die düstere Stimmung des Sohnes erfuhr durch dieses Ereignis eine solche Steigerung, daß sie von wahrer Melancholie wenig entfernt war. Die Mutter siedelte mit der Tochter im Jahre 1806, nach der Liquidation des Geschäftes, nach Weimar über. Sie dürstete nach den geistigen Anregungen dieser Kunststadt. Arthurs Streben nach Befreiung aus qualvollen Verhältnissen fand nunmehr keinen äußeren Widerstand. Er war sein eigener Herr. Die Mutter übte keinen Zwang aus. Dennoch gab es Gründe, die ihn abhielten, sogleich nach des Vaters Tode die verhaßten Fesseln abzuwerfen. Er liebte den Vater abgöttisch. Es widerstrebte seinem Gefühle, einen Schritt zu tun, den der Verstorbene nie gebilligt hätte. Auch hatte der übergroße Schmerz über den plötzlichen Verlust seine Tatkraft so sehr gelähmt, daß er sich zu keinem raschen Entschlusse aufraffen konnte. Zu alledem kam, daß er sich zu alt glaubte, um die zum Gelehrtenberuf notwendigen Vorstudien noch machen zu können. Die stets sich steigernde Abneigung gegen den kaufmännischen Beruf und der Glaube, daß er seine Lebenskräfte nutzlos verschwende, füllten die an seine Mutter nach Weimar gerichteten Briefe mit jämmerlichen Klagen, so daß es diese für ihre Pflicht erachtete, ihren Freund, den berühmten Kunstschriftsteller Fernow, um Rat zu fragen, was im Interesse des künftigen Lebensglückes ihres Sohnes zu tun sei. Fernow übermittelte der Freundin schriftlich seine Meinung. Er hielt ein Alter von achtzehn Jahren für kein Hindernis, sich den Wissenschaften zu widmen, ja er behauptete sogar, daß es diese glückliche Altersstufe sei, auf der sich «Gedächtnis und Urteil in der reifenden Kraft des Geistes vereinigen, um das, was mit fester Entschließung unternommen sei, leichter und schneller auszuführen, sich einer Kenntnis eher zu bemächtigen, als in einer frühern oder spätern Lebensperiode». Schopenhauer, dem die Mutter Fernows Brief übersandte, war von dessen Inhalt so erschüttert, daß er in Tränen ausbrach, als er ihn gelesen hatte. Was sonst gar nicht in seiner Natur lag: rasch einen Entschluß zu fassen, das bewirkten Fernows Zeilen. Die Zeit vom Frühling 1807 bis zum Herbst 1809 genügte Schopenhauer, um sich die zum Besuche der Universität notwendigen Kenntnisse zu erwerben. Bis zum Beginn des Jahres 1808 lebte er in Gotha, wo Döring den Unterricht des Lateinischen, Jacobs den des Deutschen besorgten. Die übrige Zeit verbrachte er in Weimar, wo Fernow ihn in das Verständnis der italienischen Literatur einführte. Neben den alten Sprachen, in denen der Philologe Passow und der Gymnasialdirektor Lenz seine Lehrer waren, trieb er Mathematik und Geschichte. Am 9. Oktober bezog er die Universität Göttingen, um Medizin zu studieren. Ein Jahr später vertauschte er die Medizin mit der Philosophie.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":463,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/33/06_arthur_schopenhauer/p007"}],"english":["GA 33/06_arthur_schopenhauer/p007"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":463,"en_words":482,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10419,"original_word_count":9688,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":null,"publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA033/English/SOL2024/06_Arthur_Schopenhauer.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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