Excerpt from The Life of Schleiermacher, Vol. 2 of 2: As Unfolded in His Autobiography and Letters

In May, 1809, they were married, and Schleiermacher took his bride to Berlin, where he soon obtained a regular appointment, and a new sphere of activity, at the re-constituted University. Schleiermacher was then forty-one years of age, and his wife only twenty-one; but though at first very reserved, and, as it were, overruled by the superior and far more mature mind of her husband, her peculiar nature, nourished by him, gradually developed itself more decidedly and more independently, as was indeed quite in accordance with his wishes; and the influence which she on her side exercised over him is repeatedly expressed in his subsequent letters.

[The subjoined passages, borrowed from the Memoirs of H. Steffens, afford some interesting characteristics of Schleiermacher at the period of his first appearance at Halle. Speaking of his own appointment as professor of natural philosophy at that university, Steffens says: "I was there to meet a man whose acquaintance was destined to form an epoch in my life. This was Schleiermacher, who was at the same time as myself, or a few weeks later, called to Halle as professor extraordinarius. Schleiermacher, as is well known, was small of stature and slightly deformed, but so slightly as hardly to be disfigured by it. His movements were quick and animated, his features highly expressive. A certain sharpness in his eye acted, perhaps, repulsively at times.

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