The Importance of Daniel Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer's father committed suicide when he was 17 years old. The death enabled him to become a private independently funded scholar because he inherited a fortune from his father. Do you get an impression from his writings of the sort of man he was? Yes, he was. Thought of himself as a rather embattled lonely figure who the intellectual world had ignored. And he was probably quite hard to get on with.