Gotthilf Heinrich Von Schubert, a German mystic, born at Hohenstein, Saxony, April 26, 1780, died at Laufzorn, Upper Bavaria, July 1, 1860. He studied theology at Leipsic and medicine at Jena, practised medicine at Alten-burg, Freiberg, and Dresden, was director of an educational institution in Nuremberg from 1809 to 1816, tutor to the children of the grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin till 1819, and professor of the natural sciences at Erlan-gen till 1827, and subsequently at Munich. He was a disciple of Schelling, and published numerous works embodying mystical interpretations of natural phenomena, and forming a system of objective idealism. Among them are: Ahnungen einer allgemeinen Geschichte des Lebens (3 vols., Leipsic, 1806-'20); Ansich-ten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaften (1808; 4th ed., 1840); Symbolik des Traums (1814; 4th ed., 1862); Geschichte der Seele (1830; 2d ed., 1833); and Altes und Neues aus dem Gebiete der innern Seelenkunde (5 vols., 1817-'44). He also published manuals of natural history, narratives of travel in France, Italy, and the Levant, several volumes of tales and biographies, and an autobiography (3 vols., Erlangen, 1853-'6).