Heinrich Steffens, a German author, born in Stavanger, Norway, May 2, 1773, died in Berlin, Feb. 13, 1845. He studied theology and the natural sciences at Copenhagen, and afterward at Jena became a disciple of Schelling. After returning to Copenhagen he engaged, under the auspices of Werner at Freiberg, in geological labors. He was professor at Halle from 1804 to 1807, and again from 1809 to 1811, and subsequently at Breslau (except during his service in the army in 1814-'15) till 1831, when he was transferred to Berlin. He was associated with the principal philosophers and poets of his day, and also with Schleier-macher, and became known in theology first as a dissenter from and finally as an adherent of the strict doctrines of the old Lutherans. He excelled as a poetical and miscellaneous writer, but his reputation rests on his philosophical labors, in which, according to Miche-let, " he most manifestly set forth the totality of the school of Schelling." His works include Recension von Schelling's naturphilosophischen Schriften (Jena, 1800); Grundzuge der x>hilo-sophisclien Naturwissemchqft (Berlin, 1806); Handbuch der Oryktognosic (3 vols., Halle, 1811 -'19); Caricaturen des Heiligsten (2 vols., Leip-sic, 1819-'21); Anthropologic (2 vols., Breslau, 1822); Von der fahchen Theologie und dan wahren Glauben (1824; new ed., 1831); Wie icli wieder Lutheraner wurde und was mir das Lutherthum ist (1831); Novellen (16 vols., 1837-'8); and Was ich erlebte (10 vols., 1840-'45; 2d ed., 1844-'6; abridged English translation by W. L. Gage, " The Story of my Career as Student at Freiberg and Jena," Boston, 1863; republished under the title "German University Life," Philadelphia, 1874).