Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788.
 His friends in Dresden were Johann Gottlob von Quandt, Friedrich Laun, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause and Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl, a young painter who made a romanticized portrait of him in which he improved some of Schopenhauer's unattractive physical features
Schopenhauer claimed that, in his last year in Berlin, he had a prophetic dream that urged him to escape from the city

