Background
Solomon was born August 6, 1789, in Altona (according to some authorities, in Bruchhausen, Westphalia).
Solomon was born August 6, 1789, in Altona (according to some authorities, in Bruchhausen, Westphalia).
He was educated first at the Christianeum, Altona, and pursued his medical studies at the University of Kiel. He had hardly graduated when he found a wide field for his activity in Altona, whither the inhabitants of the sister city of Hamburg, then occupied by the French troops, had fled to escape the Russian blockade, bringing with them typhus fever, which at that time was raging in the Hanseatic town.
In 1845 ill health forced him to abandon a medical career and to betake himself to milder climes. He settled in Rome, returning to his country only twice, in 1845 and 1864. He died May 19, 1866, at Zurich, Switzerland.
The Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Duisburg Germany has been named after him in recognition of his contributions as a philosopher.