Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Gesamtausgabe / Reihe II: Nachgelassene Schriften. Band 10: Nachgelassene Schriften 1806–1807

The end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the defeat of Austria in 1805 and of Prussia in 1806, tore Fichte from his scientific studies and led him to apply himself to political problems. He opposed jingoistic Prussian patriotism, offered to serve as orator for the Prussian army, and, in the wake of the debacles of Jena and Auerstedt, drafted plans for a »Republik der Deutschen«, which would be in harmony with the advance of knowledge. His diary entries record important events during his flight from Berlin to Königsberg. At the beginning of 1807 he obtained a professorship at the University of Königsberg, which gave him the occasion to produce a new version of the ›Wissenschaftslehre‹. In Copenhagen he revised, among other works, his ›Bericht über die bisherige Schicksale der Wissenschaftslehre, darin die Abfertigung Schellings.‹