“The philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century still hewed to the scholastic typus of the unwed thinker: Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, Wolf, Locke, Hume, Kant. The latter was in Germany the last of those confirmed bachelors [Hagestolze] and their bad theories of marriage. Fichte was the first world-historical philosopher who got married. After him we see Schelling, Herbart, Krause, Wagner, Troxler, and even Catholics like Franz von Baader, all married.”
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Karl Rosenkranz, in the first published biography of Hegel.
“What Rosenkranz did not say: they also got divorced.”—Adrian Daub, Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
