Friedrich Karl Forberg

Friedrich Karl Forberg (30 August 1770-1848) was a German philosopher and classical scholar.

He studied under Karl Leonhard Reinhold at Jena. In 1791 he travelled to Klagenfurt, writing to Reinhold that there was much sympathy for the French Revolution, and to the followers of Immanuel Kant that the young ladies of Klagenfurt substituted Kant's writings (modestly bound in black) for their prayer books.

He was a headmaster at Saalfeld/Saale, and from 1801 to 1826 Director of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek. His philosophical publications are less known now than his 1824 edition of an erotic poem sequence in medieval Latin, "Hermaphroditus" by Antonio Beccadelli. This was accompanied by Forberg's own learned commentary, which took the form of a catalogue and anthology of descriptions of sexual acts and postures in classical and later literature.

Works

* 1796 (anonymous) "Fragmente aus meinen Papieren"
* 1797 "Briefe über die neueste Philosophie", in "Philosophisches Journal"
* 1798 "Entwicklung des Begriffs der Religion", in "Philosophisches Journal"
* 1802 "Von den Pflichten des Gelehrten"
* 1824 "Antonii Panormitae Hermaphroditus"
** The commentary is better known as a separate publication under the titles "De figuris Veneris", "Manual of classical erotology", "Manuel d’érotologie classique", "Manual de erótica clásica" (Edición de Luis Parra y José M. Ruiz, Ediciones Clásicas, Madrid 2007)
* 1840 "Lebenslauf eines Verschollenen"

External links

* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Karl_Forberg Full bio-bibliography] on the German Wikipedia