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‘In 1805, Fichte obtained a single-term appointment as a visiting professor at the University of Erlangen, where he presented yet another version of the ‘Wissenschaftslehre’ and delivered another series of public lectures on the duties of scholars. The latter were published in 1806 as Ueber das Wesen des Gelehrten (On the Essence of the Scholar). After returning to Berlin, Fichte delivered (by subscription) two very successful public lecture series, both of which were published in 1806: Die Grundzüge des gegenwärtigen Zeitalters (The Characteristics of the Present Age), which is a foray into the philosophy of history, and Die Anweisung zum seligen Leben (Guide to the Blessed Life), which is a somewhat mystically tinged treatise on philosophy and religion’ (Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers).